Gathering Storm
A lot of people who read this column spend their days looking for the next safety threat to their airline, their flight, their maintenance shop or so on, focused on…
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Great Expectations
I spent a couple days in a seminar in Dubai discussing the future of training in our industry — a session dominated, like most recent meetings, by discussions of “the…
Executive Message, President's Message
Protect the Data | Looking Beyond Accidents
The discussion of protecting aviation safety data from use in courts of law prompted this exchange between Rutger G. Vossen, board member, technical affairs for the Dutch Airline Pilot Association,…
Austerity and Denial
The Foundation has been working with some regulators in Europe and we have come across a big problem that is common knowledge but that no one seems willing to address.…
FRMS and You
I just left a big meeting at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) about the realities of implementing fatigue risk management systems (FRMS). First, I have to say that I…
Myths and Training
This is not a column I like writing, and I know I am going to upset some people, but I have to comment on the recent release of more preliminary…
Coaches
Right now, a lot of attention is being focused on issues like intentional noncompliance and the lack of professionalism. Some of the biggest and most powerful regulators are very worried.…
Changing the Conversation
One mission of this organization is to represent the global aviation safety community in the news media. We can go on the record and say things that might not be…
Protecting Safety Data
Over the past several years, Flight Safety Foundation has been pretty vocal on the broad topic of criminalization of human error. Things have been quiet on that front lately, so…