Hi,
So I'm not an airline pilot, but I was hoping you guys could help with something. I'm a writer for Reader's Digest, and I’ve been assigned to do an article called “50 things your pilot won’t tell you.” The article will essentially be a list of things that people ought to know or will find interesting about air travel and pilots: your advice to passengers, the truth about cabin air and autopilot, dispelling the myths people believe about pilots and air travel, the real conditions pilots work under, whether we should be worried when there’s turbulence, etc.

So, this is your chance: what do you wish people knew? The magazine is asking me to talk to at least a dozen pilots. I would not need to use your name. (In other words, you can be anonymous.) The story is due Friday!

Thanks so much! -- Michelle Crouch, freelance writer