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Cockpit Concepts: January 2015
Aviation Safety Connection Go to: http://aviation.org Cockpit Concepts: January 2015 Once Again, CRM. The TV golf season has begun and it...
Nancy Baldwin
Jan 26, 20154 min read
Herald of Free Enterprise
By: John Kirk, Mercy Flight Central Ships and Planes and Managers who don’t know! Have you ever wondered if a pilot in command can learn...
Nancy Baldwin
Jan 22, 20154 min read


Navy Sees Sharp Increase In Class A Mishaps In 2014
Brass Keeping An Eye On The Situation, But Says One Year Is Not A Trend The U.S. Navy saw its rate of Class A aviation mishaps nearly...
Nancy Baldwin
Jan 11, 20151 min read


Safety Management and CRM
In 2008, as Flight 81, a Hawker Beechcraft 125-100A departed Atlantic City, NJ for Owatonna, MN, an uncontrolled airport, on a...
Nancy Baldwin
Dec 22, 20144 min read
Does SMS Limit Your Operation?
Bob Conyers, Senior Manager, Safety Occasionally people who are contemplating SMS implementation express the concern that “SMS will place...
Nancy Baldwin
Dec 19, 20142 min read


To Share or Not to Share?
Modern, technology-based safety systems like SMS depend on data. Lots of data. Presumably, the more data, the better the system. If it...
Nancy Baldwin
Dec 12, 20144 min read


Cyber attacks, drones to impact aviation safety: study
There are new risks facing the aviation industry, with the threat of cyber attacks on automated systems and the growth of drones in...
Nancy Baldwin
Dec 9, 20144 min read


Cockpit Automation Can Cause Pilots to Lose Critical Thinking Skills
In the wake of recent airline crashes, major news networks have aired concerns about pilots' ability to accurately fly "by hand" when the...
Nancy Baldwin
Dec 3, 20142 min read


NASA Offers Online Aircraft Icing Refresher
NASA’s online Pilot Guide to In-Flight Icing offers a review of the science behind ice creation, the symptoms of its effects on flight...
Nancy Baldwin
Dec 3, 20141 min read


Canada's TSB To Study Risks Associated With Air Taxi Operations
Study To Begin Early Next Year In a speech Wednesday to the Air Transport Association of Canada, Kathy Fox, Chair of the Transportation...
Nancy Baldwin
Nov 22, 20142 min read
Too Tired to Fly? Accountability for Time Management
November 1, 2014 - 1:19am It’s difficult for me–and perhaps many of you who have worked late night shifts, as well–to read the NTSB’s...
Nancy Baldwin
Nov 5, 20144 min read
In Helicopter EMS, it’s the Crew that’s Golden
What is the main benefit of helicopter EMS? Most everyone would say the time it cuts in getting patients to an appropriate level of care....
Nancy Baldwin
Nov 5, 20142 min read
Alaska State Troopers Helicopter Crash Caused by Flight Into Bad Weather and Department’s “Punitive
November 5, 2014 WASHINGTON –The National Transportation Safety Board today determined that the March 30, 2013 crash of an Alaska...
Nancy Baldwin
Nov 5, 20142 min read
FAA Loosens Safety Regs on Air Ambulances
Ambulance helicopter pilots will be given more discretion to fly in bad weather conditions under new rules from the Federal Aviation...
Nancy Baldwin
Nov 5, 20141 min read
The Advantages of a Business Helicopter
Granted, the use of conference calls, webinars and the Internet have reduced the need for short-haul business travel, certain issues...
Nancy Baldwin
Nov 4, 20142 min read
Ice Induced Roll Upset
Ice induced roll upset is an uncommanded, and potentially uncontrollable, rolling moment caused by airflow separation in front of the...
Nancy Baldwin
Nov 3, 20143 min read


EBAA position brief on Aviation Security
I- Business Aviation is secure by nature Business Aviation, unlike scheduled business models, is not predicated on a system of mass...
Nancy Baldwin
Oct 30, 20147 min read


Energy Management during Approach
Description The flight crew’s inability to assess or to manage the aircraft’s energy condition during approach is often cited as a cause...
Nancy Baldwin
Oct 28, 20145 min read
FSF Endorses State Letter Arising From ICAO Task Force on Safety Information Protection
Calls on all States to Position, Implement Recommendations to Protect Safety Information Alexandria, VA, October 27, 2014 - The Flight...
Nancy Baldwin
Oct 28, 20143 min read
More Attention Needed for Upset Recovery
“Paying attention is the most effective way to prevent becoming an accident statistic,” according to BJ Ransbury, “because it’s the most...
Nancy Baldwin
Oct 28, 20141 min read
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