She said so, plainly, because a cockpit is no place for a person to pretend to a competence they lack, and pretending was how people died.

I’ve never landed anything this size, she told Davis.

I don’t know your systems the way you do.

You are the captain of this aircraft and you are going to land it.

I am going to be your second pair of hands and eyes, and I am going to back you up on the controls, and I am going to tell you what I see.

That is all.