Antidepressants in Aviation
Australian researchers found that pilots who took prescribed antidepressants were no more likely than others to be involved in accidents and incidents…. Continue Reading →
Approach and landing Risk Reduction Guide
The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) Approach-and-landing Accident Reduction (ALAR) Task Force designed this guide as part of the FSF ALAR Tool Kit, which is designed to help prevent ALAs, including those involving controlled flight into terrain. This guide should be used to evaluate specific flight operations and to improve crew awareness of associated risks. This…… Continue Reading →
CRM Aspects In Accidents and Incidents
Incidents and accidents involve the entire range of CRM and Human Factors aspects. In incident and accident reports, the flight crew's contribution often is considered to be just what the flight crew did or did not do. This briefing is a focused but limited overview of the broad CRM subject…. Continue Reading →
Calculating Errors
Mistakes in determining takeoff parameters are frequent, a french study says, and methods of detecting them are not always effective…. Continue Reading →
Challenging Behavior
Despite years of emphasis, some fundamental problems still plague crew interaction, suggesting additional focus on monitoring and challenging could yield safety benefits…. Continue Reading →
Cognitive Engineering Analysis Of VNAV
A cognitive engineering analysis of the Flight Management System (FMS) Vertical Navigation (VNAV) function has identified overloading of the VNAV button and overloading of the Flight Mode Annunciation (FMA) used by the VNAV function. These two types of overloading, resulting in modal input devices and ambiguous feedback, are well known sources of operator confusion, and…… Continue Reading →
Conducting Effective Briefings
This Airbus Flight Operations Briefing Note provides generic guidelines for conducting effective and productive briefings. Effective briefings should be short, structured, concise and adapted to the particular conditions of the takeoff or approach-and-landing. The information provided in this document has been expanded on purpose to provide an opportunity to review and discuss in details each…… Continue Reading →
Coping With Long range Flying
This Airbus document provides a practical set of recommendations for the use of longrange crewmembers: alertness decrement, sleep, napping,life hygiene. During long-haul rotations, partial or complete compliance with these recommendations should allow pilots to better manage their levels of alertness in flight, limit sleep loss related to night flights, facilitate, if applicable, adaptation to local…… Continue Reading →
Crew Alertness On Ultra Long Range Operations
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 →
Discipline as Antidote
The importance of procedures and the adherence to procedures cannot be overstated…. Continue Reading →