(Editor’s Note: This is the first contribution to a multi-part series on going beyond the standard briefing to find the details underlying what our EFBs tell us. Look for subsequent installments in future issues.)
Sculptors work with various materials, typically by hand. Chefs work with ingredients, also by hand. Pilots work with air, but instead of eyes and hands and a sense of taste, we depend on satellites, radar, thermometers and even balloons to understand the material from which our works of art—a flight is a work of art, right?—are fabricated. But unlike the sculptor or chef, we can’t run our hands around the winds aloft or sniff for ice in the clouds 200 miles away.
