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The hesitation is landed prose. At the Kestrel cradle emergency he refuses the flap on doctrine — "You're at eleven metres on an unstabilised mass and doctrine is thirty. I'm not opening that flap" — and goes on Veski's second call. turns that into overcompensation, never cowardice; Redding correctly closes the flight branch.
The hesitation is landed Book 1 prose. At the Kestrel cradle emergency he refuses the flap on doctrine — "You're at eleven metres on an unstabilised mass and doctrine is thirty. I'm not opening that flap" — and goes on Veski's second call. Book 2 chapter 13 turns that into overcompensation, never cowardice; Redding correctly closes the flight branch.