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Pilots are a little special, their panic mode is also a checklist, known as the memory items.

This doesn't work for normal people because normal people don't drill non-normal events until the response is instinctive.



Normal people should drill certain non-normal events (for example, all drivers should know how to deaccelerate and get off the road quickly).

But you should NEVER design a system that requires normal people to drill non-normal events; even planes have been redesigned to "fix" problems where the pilot had to do something unintuitive or unexpected, because eventually it WILL catch up to you.




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