Managing Editor’s Notebook, Risk Management, Safety Management
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Posts Categorized: Managing Editor’s Notebook
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Flight Training, Managing Editor’s Notebook, Opinion
Outdated Training?
Today’s pilot training programs could be improved by replacing some century-old basics with CBTA.
Foundation Focus, Managing Editor’s Notebook
Investing in Mental Health
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all become attuned to our daily physical health, and to the health of those around us. It is rare to find…
Flight Deck, In Sight, Managing Editor’s Notebook
Insight: Avoiding Traps
What’s Happening to Checklist Discipline?
In Sight, Managing Editor’s Notebook, Safety Culture
Insight: Building on Human Error
A fuller understanding of why people make mistakes provides the groundwork not only for a healthy safety culture but also for a reasoned approach to implementing an SMS.
Flight Deck, Managing Editor’s Notebook, Opinion
Insight: Wind and Words
Critical information is lost when all pilots and controllers aren’t speaking the same language.
InSight, Managing Editor’s Notebook, News
Insight: An Isolated Incident?
A stronger organizational culture could have helped the flight department avoid the event and its aftermath.
Human Factors Issues, Commentary, Managing Editor’s Notebook
Data-Entry Errors Can Lead Aircraft Off Course
Distractions and heavy workload are often cited as contributing to programming mistakes.
accident/safety data, Commentary, Managing Editor’s Notebook
Safety Performance in 2020
At the dawn of each new year, we read the familiar tally of aircraft accidents from the previous year. What usually is evident, in addition to the industry’s long-term safety…
by Mark Millam | Vice President, Technical