Is There Really a No.1?
For those who manage risk in aviation organizations, it can be irritating when simplistic news reports start hitting the street about who is “No. 1 in airline safety.” While the airlines…
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Can Risk Be Managed If It Can’t Be Measured?
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) new compliance philosophy1 has introduced an oversight approach that proactively manages risks through the “identification and control of existing or emerging safety issues” and…
What Is Trending?
A pilot fails to notice a warning light for two critical aircraft systems and conducts a takeoff. A crew ignores company procedures on a repositioning flight. A maintenance technician fails…
The ABCs of Aviation Maintenance Manuals
If I close my eyes and think back real hard, I can remember when I was a newly certificated aviation maintenance technician (AMT). Armed with my airframe and powerplant certificate…
Cognitive Decline
Some aging pilots struggle to respond appropriately to this insidious threat.
Continuous Descent vs. Dive-and-Drive
In an article comparing constant-angle, nonprecision, straight-in instrument approach procedures (IAPs) with “dive-and-drive” (stepdown) IAP designs (“Continuous Descent,” ASW, 7/13), the article’s source makes a case against airline flight crews’…
Right From the Start
SMS must be built into UAS development — beginning with testing.