Use of alcohol wipes believed to be shorting out wires in airline cockpits.
Aviation Safety Reporting System
Top 10 things to know about ASRS Reports
NASA reports are sometimes referred to as “Get Out of Jail Free” cards, but are they really?
Sterile cockpit?
Human Factors columnist Jeffrey Madison explores the relationship between the sterile cockpit rule, flight instructing and PIC.
GA pilots encourage to submit NASA reports on wake encounters
The FAA is encouraging GA pilots to submit NASA Reports about wake turbulence.
Crosswind landings: Worth the price to practice
Unless practiced, crosswind landings can bite a pilot. A look through NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) details some of those pilot’s bites.
Human Factors: Elevators
I had a flight instructor once demonstrate how to take off, fly a pattern, and land a Cessna 172 using only power, rudder, and trim controls. Many years later another flight instructor demonstrated the same thing to me during a Boeing 717 simulator session. Granted, both departures were long, flat climb-outs. The approaches were also […]
Droning on
I checked off a New Year’s resolution in 2017 when I successfully added Unmanned, small Aircraft System Remote Pilot to my list of pilot certifications. I am one of the more than 23,000 people who has earned that license since the FAA began issuing it in 2013. More than 23,000 licenses in only four years […]
Human Factors: Self-inflicted
Last year I gifted my readers with stories of men and women pilots who acted heroically, and lived to tell about it. This holiday season I’m going in a different direction. The Aviation Safety Reporting System reports I chose this time come from pilots who, in their own way, shot themselves in the proverbial foot. Failure […]
Asleep at the yoke
Falling asleep while flying is something I’ve never done. I remember reading about a flight crew who did, overflying their Hawaiian island destination. I wondered what those two pilots felt in that moment when they both suddenly awoke with land and the airport well behind them. I can only imagine the gut-wrenching feeling they must […]