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The Hurry-up syndrome
The Hurry-up syndrome by Javier Viana This article is about time pressure in the cockpit, or hurry up syndrome or get-there-it is , as you want to call it and their relation to errors. Although time pressure could be perceived in both seats, that is, as a Captain or as a First Officer, the Captain is the one responsible to establish a pace in the execution of SOP in the cockpit, and finally he will be responsible in front of the Company supervisor for the delay in the flight. First of all, we need to set the basis of what an error is. For that, I have taken the Professor Reason’s types of error that follows. Professor Reason suggests an error classification. The most well-known of these are slips, lapses, and mistakes. Violations are not taken as errors. Slips can be thought of as actions not carried out as intended or planned, e.g. When you are changing the frequency in your audio box and you finger trouble it or when you fill out the flight log book with...
8 awesome facts about Satellites you didn’t know about!
https://youtu.be/3RXo-5Ya3DA You might know some awesome facts about satellites but here are some that you might not know about:
Low level windshear in approach. Positive versus Negative
Low-level windshear is a sudden change in wind speed or direction. It can be in the horizontal plane, the most common one, or in the vertical plane, in which you will deal with a change in height. It can be associated with frontal masses, thunderstorms, low-level mountain waves (as usually found in islands) or mechanical turbulence. We can distinguish two different types of low-level windshear in the horizontal axis. Positive wind shear and negative wind shear. Let's explain the difference between them both. Disclaimer: Actions that we need to take in windshear situations are very well described in the FCOM of all Companies. Usually when we find an alert, you need to go around. But what happens if we don't find the alert? Positive windshear is a sudden increase in headwind, making the airspeed rise and making the aircraft fly above the glide slope. If you are told to expect positive windshear on final, you should land with a lower setting of flaps, so a...
combating Pilot fatigue
Pilot fatigue is a constant threat to all aircrew.... http://goflightmedicine.com/fighter-pilot-fatigue/
Rethinking the Briefing
It is time to rethink the way we brief — not only to address these issues but also to create a methodology that incorporates recent breakthroughs in cognitive theory regarding decision making in the very environments that are proving to be so challenging for pilots. After a year of research and development, we came up with four goals for our briefings: https://flightsafety.org/asw-article/rethinking-the-briefing/
Success is about choice: Phillip Van Hooser
https://youtu.be/avQXdoKNV4g Phil has built an extremely successful career developing and marketing customized leadership keynotes, management training plans, books, and videos on leadership. He has taught his proven leadership skills at companies of all sizes throughout the U.S. and the globe. His five basis for decision making: 1. Tools 2. Rules 3. Positioning 4. Time 5. Will
The bed of Procustes
https://youtu.be/7T6MXfO_yRY The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms is a philosophy no voice video by Nassim Nicholas Taleb written in the aphoristic style . Here you will find sentences displayed in order to make you think. In the Greek myth, Procrustes was a son of Poseidon . There he had a bed, in which he invited every passer-by to spend the night, and where he set to work on them with his smith's hammer, to stretch them to fit. In later tellings, if the guest proved too tall, Procrustes would amputate the excess length; nobody ever fitted the bed exactly.
Tailpipe fire
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Freedoms of the sky
By Svetlana Surnikova International air transport has, until recently, been one of the most restrictive and highly regulated industries in the world. The Chicago Convention of 1944 laid the foundation that established the international bilateral air services agreements (BASAs) system, which presently continues to govern most of the world’s trade in aviation. In essence, BASAs or bilaterals are the building blocks of the bilateral framework that specify market access provisions. Typically, BASAs stipulate which airlines may operate between two countries, the routes they may serve, traffic rights, frequency and capacity (seats) limitations, and they often place controls over airline pricing. While many air transport markets between Africa and outside of Africa have been liberalised to a significant extent, intra-African air transport market, to-date, remains largely closed and has been primarily governed by restrictive BASAs hampering its expansion and livelihood. This has affecte...
Captain responsibility
Letter from an Anonymous Captain: Let's get some facts on the table. As an airline captain, I am the sole authority on the airplane. With that authority comes great responsibility. Likewise, FAR 91.1 states that I am solely responsible for the safe operation of the flight. Therefore, I am responsible for each and every one of you once you cross the threshold of the airplane door. Keep that in mind as we progress. In other words, you break a rule and I could lose my license. My livelihood is not worth your inability to comply. That aside, lets look at why the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR's) are what they are. Most pilots will agree that the FAR's are written in blood. Every one of the rules was written as the result of the loss of life (a crash.) For example, most of you don't get why you have to have your seat-back and your tray table up for take off. Fact is, the most dangerous part of your fight is the high-speed takeoff regime-- that point from appro...
Sleep deprivation is killing you and your career
The next time you tell yourself that you'll sleep when you're dead, realize that you're making a decision that can make that day come much sooner. Pushing late into the night is a health and productivity killer. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141201150910-50578967-skipping-sleep-is-career-suicide
Meet the Milky Way
FlightLapse #01 - MilkyWay from SkyProduction on Vimeo . Flying through the night, while the world beneath us is at sleep, is a pretty common thing as a longhaul pilot. Late evening departures lead to far distant destinations like Singapore, Hong Kong, Sao Paolo or J’burg. Depending on the direction of the flight the crew and the passengers either have a short night up ahead if flying eastbound or almost eternal darkness if headed westwards. The latter is the case for my todays flight across the Atlantic Ocean to South America. Our flight is packed and some 340 passengers are settling in for a long night flight. Its my turn to be at the flightdeck for the first part of the journey, as my other co-pilot gets the chance to rest in the crew bunk above the passenger cabin. We are heading our westbound, along the clearly visible Alps to our left. Just before reaching Geneva and the western tip of Switzerland we are making a shallow left turn to join the Rhone valley leading us to...
Why you should forget the awesome, for now
"We all have standards. From whether you never leave the house without a tie to cleaning your children’s faces before they go to school, we all have a level that we refuse to allow ourselves to fall below. I’m sure you can see people’s standards being eroded in your workplace, just look around you. The girl who is having a muffin and coke for lunch, the boss who has started to come into meetings late or the guy who is skipping the gym and putting on weight. When you allow your standards to slip you are effectively allowing yourself to be ‘less awesome’. You are approving of your own poor behaviour and saying, ‘I’m going to let myself down today.’ ‘Airmanship covers a broad range of desirable behaviours and abilities in an aviator. It is not simply a measure of skill or technique, but also a measure of a pilot’s awareness of the aircraft, the environment in which it operates, and of his own capabilities.’ ‘Truly superior pilots are those who use their superior judgment to avoid ...
Want a flight in a B-17 Bomber?
https://youtu.be/AsO8GTXgGAI Take a flight in a World War II B-17G bomber. Interesting to see the detail of engine start, taxi, take off, cruise and landing all from cockpit. You can take a flight in this B-17 as well, book via the link below http://www.yankeeairmuseum.org
Flutter
https://youtu.be/f7tg94QflBY Avoiding Dangerous Divergent Aerodynamic Flutter. One of the most dangerous events that can occur in flight is a phenomena called "flutter". Flutter is an aerodynamically induced vibration of a wing, tail, or control surface that can result in total structural failure in a matter of seconds. The prediction of flutter is not a precise science and requires flight verification that flutter will not occur within the normal flight envelope. The aerodynamic surfaces of an airplane are constructed so that they can carry the loads that are produced in flight. For example the wing must be capable of supporting the weight of the airplane as well as the additional lift produced during turning flight. The resulting wing structure can be viewed as a blade or spring extending from the fuselage. If we "tap" the spring with a hammer, it will vibrate at a frequency which relates to the stiffness of the spring. A stiff spring will vibrate at a higher ...