Dry and High
Dehydratation causes an insidious degradation of pilot performance that must not be lightly regarded…. Continue Reading →
Effective Pilot and Controller Communications
Communications between controllers and pilots can be improved by the mutual understanding of each other's operating environment…. Continue Reading →
Enhancing Flight crew Monitoring Skills Can Increase Flight Safety
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 →
Enhancing Situation Awareness
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 →
Error Management
This Briefing provides an overview and discussion of Criteria defining a stabilized approach and, factors involved in rushed and unstabilized approaches…. Continue Reading →
Explaining Leadership and Followership
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 →
Flight Crew Briefing
An effective crew briefing is an opportunity to transform a group of individuals into a highly effective team… Continue Reading →
Golden Rules
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 →
Getting To Grips With Fatigue and Alertness Management
This Airbus document provides a practical set of recommendations for the use of long range crewmembersThis Airbus document provides a practical set of recommendations for the use of long range crewmembers… Continue Reading →
Handling an emergency
Most of us will go through our entire careers without ever having to declare an emergency. For those who do pull the short straw however, there are some basic considerations that apply, regardless of the specific problem(s). The desired outcome for any emergency situation is a controlled rate of descent onto a prepared surface…. Continue Reading →