Blogs about: Cockpit Resource Management
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To Error is Human
This year’s nationwide FAA Safety Stand Down took a realistic and practical approach to human error by first acknowledging that, because we have a brain, we are susceptible to making unintentional mis… more →
Wild Blue Yonder
To Error is Human
wrote 3 days ago: This year’s nationwide FAA Safety Stand Down took a realistic and practical approach to human error … more →
Autopilot: Friend or Foe?
wrote 3 months ago: After years of trying to convince pilots it’s OK to use the autopilot, the pendulum is now swi … more →
Respect Your Passengers
wrote 8 months ago: As pilots, we have become accustomed to and familiar with the flying environment and the equipment w … more →
Let's Run out of Gas
wrote 8 months ago: Running out of fuel short of your destination must be easy to do because it seems to happen to a lot … more →
Roll the Dice or Stack the Deck
wrote 10 months ago: Many pilots think accidents are inevitable—that they only happen to the other pilot, not to them. Su … more →
Density Altitude
wrote 11 months ago: Every summer writers warn about the effects of density altitude on aircraft performance; and every y … more →
Renting versus Owning
wrote 1 year ago: This is not an article on the pros and cons of renting versus owning; rather it’s what you might wan … more →
Glass vs. Steam
wrote 1 year ago: By the mid-1970s, commercial aircraft cockpits were crammed with over a hundred instruments, gauges, … more →
Building a culture of objection
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wrote 1 year ago: Summary: accepting objections is one of the most valuable skills a manager can learn, and yet the ro … more →
Pilot in Command
wrote 1 year ago: Aviation is the only discipline I know that provides a rule for when and how to break its own rules… … more →
Safety Management System and General Aviation
wrote 1 year ago: A Safety Management System (SMS)—the risk assessment and dispatch process for each flight—represents … more →
Checklist Discipline
wrote 1 year ago: Why do pilots stop using checklists? Safety experts use words like familiarity or complacency. It mi … more →
Winter Flying in Southern California
wrote 1 year ago: If you live in sunny southern California do you really have to worry about cold weather flying? The … more →
Gathering Flight Planning Information
wrote 1 year ago: How do you get your weather and NOTAM information when you flight plan? You now have multiple option … more →
Aeronautical Decision Making and Risk Management
wrote 1 year ago: In most cases teaching someone the skills to fly an airplane is pretty straight forward. I have hea … more →
Maintaining Your Skills as a Pilot
wrote 1 year ago: What are you doing to maintain and improve your piloting skills and knowledge? All of us who have sp … more →
Why I like the Wings Pilot Proficiency Program
wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been giving seminars on the new WINGS Pilot Proficiency Program and have been asked to objectiv … more →
Focus, Dwight, FOCUS!!!
wrote 3 years ago: On the stepper at the gym I usually read the FT. Tonight I did something I don’t do frequently … more →
