And if you try to live life as safely as possible, you’ll never really live. There is no such thing as absolute safety. Fear makes us believe danger is right around the corner and we should do everything possible to protect ourselves from it. When you prepare more than you need and rehearse worst-case scenarios, you get one step closer to mastering fear.Įveryone has a natural impulse for self-preservation. They had timed the mission to exactly 40 minutes, and during the actual operation, they got in and out in 38 minutes. When one of the helicopters crashed during the mission, the SEALs had planned and practiced what to do in case such a situation happens. The same thing was done during the Osama bin Laden raid. It took Brandon only a couple of seconds to react, he immediately shut down all electrical systems, the plane was mechanical so it could still fly without it and turned the plane around towards their starting point.īrandon writes that he didn’t have to spend time thinking about what to do because he had rehearsed this situation several times. This means pilots run dozens or even hundreds of what-if scenarios: What to do if an engine goes out if there’s an electrical problem if communications go down and more. If even one of the radios decided to spark, Brandon and his co-pilot would be stuck in a cockpit fire.īrandon writes that part of pilot training is the mastery of contingency plans. This meant that Brandon and his friend were sitting in a puddle of highly flammable plane fuel in a 50+ year old plane. Brandon then looked down and saw that his leg was soaking wet and fuel was squirting out into the cockpit.

While taking off, something didn’t sound right to him. He planned to fly it from Fort Lauderdale to Miami.īrandon went through all the safety checks and took off. That is what it takes to make a great movie: Practice, practice, practice.īrandon tells a story of when he was flying with his old flight instructor in a little plane he had just bought. So does this mean that everything else was a waste?

The same scene can be shot over twenty times, but eventually, only one clip is chosen. When directors film a movie, they spend many hours and sometimes days filming a 1-minute scene over and over again.

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