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In the safety realm, there are no competitors. Flight Safety Foundation is impartial, nonprofit, global — a driving force for major initiatives toward progress.

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142 countries that are members of Flight Safety Foundation.

Registration has begun for the
54th annual Corporate Aviation
Safety Seminar (CASS) 2009

Presented by Flight Safety Foundation and National Business Aviation Association on April 21–23, 2009 at the Hilton Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida. This seminar is recognized as the premier forum for the discussion and exchange of safety information for industry leaders from regional airlines, corporate flight departments, manufacturers, civil aviation authorities and educational institutions. Topic areas include: criminalization, safety culture, safety management systems, panel on automatic dependent surveillance–broadcast and other current safety strategies.

For more information and to register click here.

Registration is continuing for the
21st annual European Aviation
Safety Seminar (EASS) 2009

Presented by Flight Safety Foundation, Eurocontrol and European Regions Airline Association on March 16–18, 2009 at the Hilton Cyprus Hotel in Nicosia, Cyprus. This seminar is recognized as the premier forum for the discussion and exchange of safety information for industry leaders from regional airlines, corporate flight departments, manufacturers, civil aviation authorities and educational institutions. Last year over three hundred decision-makers from 30 countries attended EASS.

For more information and to register click here.

You must remember this.

Automation and checklists have reduced the need for reliance on human memory in the cockpit. But sometimes the automated warning fails. The checklist is interrupted. When human memory doesn’t fill the gap, it’s still the same old story, as time goes by. The December cover story centers around two events — involving a DC-9 in 1987 and a CRJ200 in 2008 — when uncompleted checklists and lack of compensating pilot memory led to attempted takeoffs with flaps retracted. In the case of the CRJ, an automated warning permitted the takeoff to be rejected in time. The DC-9 crashed with a loss of 156 lives. Alan Dean and Shawn Pruchnicki analyze the human factors involved in memory failure and mitigation strategies for the threat.

Plus, misconceptions about “blowing” deicing boots; the need for helicopter operators to better brief passengers on life raft operation; the possible safety risk of pilot job insecurity; and, as always, much more.

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The hard copy of the December 2008 AeroSafety World magazine has been mailed to Foundation members. FSF members can purchase additional printed copies for US$35 each; the price for nonmembers is $50.

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