Karen Whitfield on WingmanNetwork

Flight Instructor at Gulfstream Training Center · Miami, FL

1997, somewhere over the Gulf. My captain was about to do something I thought was wrong and I said nothing for eleven seconds. We were fine. I have thought about those eleven seconds for almost thirty years. Speak up sooner than feels polite.

2 comments

Grace Hollis

I have quoted this exact idea in a CRM brief without knowing whose it was. Now I do.

Jesse Lin

Eleven seconds is such a precise number. That is the detail that makes it stick.