All this talk about being kind (or staying calm) in tense situations reminds me of this video I caught on reddit last year. [0]
There is a dash-cam filming the inside cockpit of a plane when the pilot abruptly finds himself in one of those "death spirals" or "flat spins".
The pilot doesn't say a word.
He immediately reverts to his training, rights the plane, glides it towards the ground, and only grunts a bit when he crash-lands.
I found that absolutely amazing. To have that level of poise when you are literally facing death is unbelievable.
It is very similar to the simple advice given in the linked blog post.
Staying calm in difficult situations is the most efficient course of action.
Stressing out, raising your voice, yelling about things, or blaming others isn't going to do a damned thing when your plane is literally spinning out of control and going to kill you in a few minutes.
Just an aside, for the record, obviously not important but since the topic came up...
A spiral and a spin are two very different things, and a spin and a flat spin again are very different.
In a spiral you actually still fly, in a spin you are not, you are in a continuous stall situation. That means from a spiral you can recover simply by "flying out of it", for a spin you have to do stuff you would not do when "flying", like full(!) and sudden rudder.
This heavily depends on the airplane, but a flat spin can be really dangerous, getting out of one often is much harder than from a "normal" spin. No problem in an aerobatic airplane, but in a jet it can be an unrecoverable situation.
There is a dash-cam filming the inside cockpit of a plane when the pilot abruptly finds himself in one of those "death spirals" or "flat spins".
The pilot doesn't say a word.
He immediately reverts to his training, rights the plane, glides it towards the ground, and only grunts a bit when he crash-lands.
I found that absolutely amazing. To have that level of poise when you are literally facing death is unbelievable.
It is very similar to the simple advice given in the linked blog post.
Staying calm in difficult situations is the most efficient course of action.
Stressing out, raising your voice, yelling about things, or blaming others isn't going to do a damned thing when your plane is literally spinning out of control and going to kill you in a few minutes.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvbS-oHi9ro