Yes and no. If you've got your eyes up and looking way down the road, or 20-50-100 miles ahead of the aircraft, you've all the time in the world to think and plan your reaction.
It's when the truly unexpected happens (engine out, doofus in the cage backs into your line of travel, SQUIRREL!!) that the forebrain is completely out of the loop and the lizard brain takes over and just *does*. I mean, the forebrain observes, but by the time it has had a chance to register, the hindbrain has already reacted.
It's *still* competency porn, because you have to take the time to *train* the hindbrain as to what to do. You are not going to get all four paws flying to where they need to be in an emergency unless you've practised it many times so that it *becomes* muscle memory. Been there, done that. Nearly despaired of it. But I had one of the best instructors in the biz, and he made me keep at it... and now when the brake lights explode in front of me, the paws are on clutch, brake, and brake before I can think about it, and I've all the time in the world to shift down and set the bike up to start again.
As Laurence Fishburne so eloquently put it, "Prrrrrractice." Both ends of the brain.
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Re: Thoughts
Date: 2018-04-22 06:23 am (UTC)It's when the truly unexpected happens (engine out, doofus in the cage backs into your line of travel, SQUIRREL!!) that the forebrain is completely out of the loop and the lizard brain takes over and just *does*. I mean, the forebrain observes, but by the time it has had a chance to register, the hindbrain has already reacted.
It's *still* competency porn, because you have to take the time to *train* the hindbrain as to what to do. You are not going to get all four paws flying to where they need to be in an emergency unless you've practised it many times so that it *becomes* muscle memory. Been there, done that. Nearly despaired of it. But I had one of the best instructors in the biz, and he made me keep at it... and now when the brake lights explode in front of me, the paws are on clutch, brake, and brake before I can think about it, and I've all the time in the world to shift down and set the bike up to start again.
As Laurence Fishburne so eloquently put it, "Prrrrrractice." Both ends of the brain.