After two years of workshop discussions and follow-up meetings, recommendations have been issued for planning and approving flight-sector lengths greater than 16 hours between specific city pairs. Specialists at these meetings forged operational guidelines that will help the airline industry to expand the operational envelope while maintaining safety…. Continue Reading →
Dehydratation causes an insidious degradation of pilot performance that must not be lightly regarded…. Continue Reading →
The importance of procedures and the adherence to procedures cannot be overstated…. Continue Reading →
Communications between controllers and pilots can be improved by the mutual understanding of each other's operating environment…. Continue Reading →
This Flight Operations Briefing Note presents a definition of situational awareness. It explains the complex process of gaining and maintaining situational awareness, focuses on how it may be lost and proposes prevention and recovery strategies. This briefing note is intended to help the reader gain and maintain situational awareness, to prevent falling into the traps…… Continue Reading →
Safety problems can arise from insufficient monitoring by the flight crew. Monitoring can be degraded because of several factors, including preoccupation with other duties… Continue Reading →
This training manual was produced by Western Michigan University School of Aviation Sciences and Battelle Memorial Institute with assistance from Alaska Airlines and the office of the Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor for Human Factors to the Federal Aviation Administration. It is a continuation of the project to identify leadership and followership skills used in…… Continue Reading →
This Briefing provides an overview and discussion of Criteria defining a stabilized approach and, factors involved in rushed and unstabilized approaches…. Continue Reading →
An effective crew briefing is an opportunity to transform a group of individuals into a highly effective team… Continue Reading →
The operations Golden Rules defined by Airbus assist trainees in maintaining their basic airmanship as they progress to increasingly integrated and automated aircraft models…. Continue Reading →