flying
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Flying a plane is easy; it’s the stalls, weather emergencies, getting lost, instrument failures, and those two essential but special circumstances — takeoffs and landings — that take all the training time.
Bruce Schneier, Beyond Fear
Beyond fear, by the way, is a great, straightforward book on security, full of examples and insights. It was interesting to get to read it only until now, when terrorism has been far eclipsed as the crisis of the day by the financial collapse.