ARTICLE: Twelve Years After 9/11 Flight Safety Becomes Growing Concern Due To Suspect Aircraft Parts Suspected Unapproved Parts have nothing to do with 9/11, other than to grab some attention from a headline. SUPs pose…
ARTICLE: ‘Behavioral Drift’ Threatens the Safety of Flight Operations Pilot monitoring is a hot topic these days. NTSB Board members have lectured on the subject and industry has begun to research and develop techniques to…
ARTICLE: Autopilot isn’t enough: experts call for new pilot training standards to prevent crashes In the 1980s United Airlines observed that some of the behavior in the cockpit was entirely too deferential; the pilot-in-command neither…
Article Article Article The discussion around Washington, particularly in the regional airline world, has been most discouraging about their future ability to hire and train pilots. The tone, if you read the cockpit blogs, has…
ARTICLE: “Preventing Fatigue is a Joint Responsibility” Over the past one or two years, there are few issues which have attracted as much attention as pilot fatigue, or as it used to be known as…
ARTICLE: ALPA Readies Aviation Industry for New Rule to Combat Pilot Fatigue The FAA has struggled to regulate the readiness of the cockpit crew for flight. For many years, the single most contentious FAR has…
ARTICLE: RAA members rally to answer FAA’s call The regulatory approach to aviation safety has moved from reactive to proactive. Much of those positive developments can be attributed to joint FAA/industry efforts, a quintessential example…
ARTICLE: FAA Proposes $2.75 Million Civil Penalty Against Boeing Co. for Quality Control Violations The civil penalty process has just begun and Boeing has not begun to explain its side of this story. It has…