The Back Up Plan
 

Seems like a good time, following Junior's second flight, to post these rules for making a good back up plan. My airplane taught them to me:

1. To be any good, a back-up plan has to be rational.

2. It has to have a high probability of safely working.

3. It must have a clear set of circumstances in which it will be invoked.

4. It's sufficiently robust to easily handle even unlikely circumstances.

5. It has a clear outcome and stays in use until that outcome is reached.

6. When the outcome is reached or specific termination circumstances exist, the back-up plan is ended and normal conditions are re-established.

Dave

Excellent topic David! I'd add that if the plan has the word "hope" in it anywhere...make another plan... ;)