Cabin Safety Effects of PEDs
Social media pressures and expanded use of portable electronic devices disrupt conventional cabin safety…. Continue Reading →
Can They Talk The Talk
Just because pilots claim English as a native language, that doesn’t mean their aviation English is up to par…. Continue Reading →
Cabin Decompressions Awareness
The objectives of this briefing is to review the different types of decompression and enhance cabin and flight crew awareness of the importance of rapidly taking appropriate actions to successfully manage decompression…. Continue Reading →
Charts raise Pilot Awareness Of Minimum Vectoring Altitudes
At least 158 paper charts published by 34 civil aviation authorities currently provide advisory information about minimum vectoring altitudes to pilots. Newly released data for 374 U.S. MVA charts should encourage development of electronic versions that will help to prevent controlled flight into terrain…. Continue Reading →
Cosmic Radiation
Crew members who regularly fly at high cruise altitudes receive higher levels of ionizing radiation than the general population. The increased risk appears to be slight, but greater attention is being focused on monitoring of, and education about, ionizing radiation…. Continue Reading →
Cockpit and Cabin Smoke Procedures
The objective of this presentation is to review the latest Airbus developments on the topic, recall the Cockpit/Cabin Smoke Procedure Philosophy, outline the recommendations of the Airbus « Smoke » Working Group, and how they will be incorporated in the smoke procedures…. Continue Reading →
Culture Counts
The importance of establishing and maintaining a positive safety culture and climate in any aviation organization is now beyond debate. But little attention has been paid to measuring an organization’s safety environment, an omission that is important because, as business schools preach, you can’t manage what you can’t measure…. Continue Reading →
Danger of Falling Overhead Baggage
Minimal traumatic brain injury is one serious consequence of injury caused by baggage falling from overhead compartments. Between 20 percent and 60 percent of such patients have symptoms three months after being injured…. Continue Reading →
Emergency Evacuation On Ground
New procedures presented by Airbus…. Continue Reading →
Darkness Increases Risks of Flight
Human perceptual limitations are blamed for specific types of accidents that are more likely to occur in darkness than in daylight. Special hazards associated with night flying continue to cause accidents despite efforts to inform pilots of the risks…. Continue Reading →
Enhancing Terrain Awareness
This briefing provides a set of operational recommendations and training guidelines to establish and maintain the desired level of terrain awareness…. Continue Reading →
Factors to Consider Before an Emergency Evacuation
Flight crews must consider many factors in deciding whether to order an evacuation…. Continue Reading →
Erroneous ILS Indications Pose Risk of CFIT
Several incidents involved flight crews who observed normal, on-course instrument landing system (ILS) indications although their aircraft were not established on the glideslope or on the localizer course…. Continue Reading →
Flightcrew response to In-Flight Smoke, Fire, or Fumes
Smoke, fire, or fume (SFF) events can occur suddenly in commercial airplanes. Yet information about the source of the event may be vague, incomplete, inaccurate, or contradictory. Additionally, there is a wide range of possible sources and situations…. Continue Reading →
Getting To Grips With Cabin Safety
This Airbus brochure is a comprehensive review of Cabin Crew Emergency Procedures, incorporating Fire, Smoke, Emergency Evacuation, Ditching, Cabin Depressurization and Crew Resource Management. The aim of « Getting to Grips with Cabin Safety » is to provide Operators with guidance to develop procedures to implement their own cabin safety program, which is customized to the Operator’s…… Continue Reading →