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The Only Boat To Get There Is The Slow Boat

August 10, 2026

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Chris reaches for the line, hears that he has it backwards, and fixes it inside the same breath. There is no slow boat to get there. The only boat to get there is the slow boat. You put the hours in or you do not have the expertise, and the hours are the proof. Which is why the air traffic control seat does not need pilots. It needs people who understand what a pilot is going through when they are being spoken to, and a few hundred hours in a flight sim is one way to know somebody speaks that language.

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