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Most safety discussions in aviation focus on what happens in the airline or business-aviation environment: procedures, automation policies, flight data monitoring, fatigue risk management, and line training, for example. Yet, the behaviors that underpin all of this — discipline, lookout, workload management, threat and error management, and communication habits — are formed much earlier. They begin in small training airplanes, with students learning how to cope with radio calls, weather, navigation, and aircraft handling while a flight instructor guides them through the chaos of their first hours. …
