Human Factors, News, Runway Safety
A veteran pilot accustomed to flying IFR expected to be directed to the usual runway for a VFR departure, the ATSB says.
A 23,500-hour pilot – volunteering for a flying charity while furloughed from an airline job and unaccustomed to visual flight rules (VFR) departure procedures at Australia’s Bankstown Airport – entered an occupied runway instead of the parallel runway specified by air traffic control. An airport traffic controller cleared the pilot for takeoff before recognizing the error and telling the pilot to hold position.
There’s no common cause for runway incursions, and no common cure, safety experts say.
Aviation Research, Human Factors, President's Message
The continuing evolution of CRM is prompting the authors’ call for subject matter experts to…
Human Factors, News, obituaries
An expert in human error, Reason was also a leading proponent of just culture.
