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Complacency: Performance’s Evil Twin
Highly automated aircraft — the reality of the airline industry. A great concern paralleling this automation is the inbreeding of complacency. We’ve moved away from teaching pilots how to fly jets, to...
View ArticleAirtime : CASA’s Crew Resource Managament Training Toolkit
The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority released a Crew Resource Management training package mid-2010 designed to provide training material to general aviation and Low Capacity RPT (LCRPT)...
View ArticleGear Up Landings and Pilot Error
There’s an old adage in aviation that reads, “There are two types of pilots: Those that have landed gear up, and those that will.” I’m not a big believer in these silly phrases — their purpose being to...
View ArticleRelief Crew on the Flight Deck
Ok, so this one may be a little controversial. As you read it remember that unlike many of my professional brethren, in my dim dark past I actually have been a Cruise Relief First Officer (actually a...
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Decision Making Models in Aviation
We are reviewing Decision Making Models at the moment. On the 777, we’ve used FORDEC, which is very close to the European model, except we’ve replaced “Check” with “Communicate”, which may or may not...
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Clean, CON – VNAV ENG OUT – EXECute
A not-so recent amendment to the B777 FCTM (followed by a more recent update to the FCOM and QRH) instigated a procedure where ENG OUT mode of the FMC VNAV page is selected (confirmed) and EXEC...
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Top Of Climb Checks
The pilots of many airlines have a procedural flow or checklist of items they review after the aircraft reaches cruising altitude. These are rarely documented in Airlines SOPs and even more rarely are...
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Non-Normal Failures That Impact Multiple Systems (You Can’t Always Get What...
I was recently in the simulator with two other instructors: one was my First Officer, the other was the Sadist… ahem … sim instructor. We were running without the ECL (paper QRH for NM and NNM) and the...
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Non Normal Management Model – ANC AAM
Some time ago I wrote about a review of a Decision Making Model (FORDEC). During that article I clarified that there is a clear difference between a Decision Making Model versus a Non Normal Management...
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