The What If Game
There is a game I learned when I first started learning how to fly. My instructor called it the “What If” game. All pilots play this game during training whether they know it or not. The most common version is what are you going to do if you engine quits right now? For the rest of my 60-year aviation career, I played an expanded version of the what if game for situations besides engine failures both in the air and for non-aviation activities on the ground. I can tell you for sure that the what if game has saved my bacon many times over.