tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post6100797560339757211..comments2024-03-13T09:47:40.487+00:00Comments on Cockpit Conversation: Four Bad Omens for a Human Factors CourseAviatrixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-40644176340481041862013-09-12T03:27:24.025+00:002013-09-12T03:27:24.025+00:00This sort of decision-making mindset also applies ...This sort of decision-making mindset also applies to others making important decisions with potentially dire consequences. I'd be interested ion reading more materials about it so I can correlate it to emergency field medicine (some of us have stolen the old test pilot term "coffin corner" already).majrojnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-68622844076500376092013-09-09T14:22:56.578+00:002013-09-09T14:22:56.578+00:00Web pages designed for a particular browser, or re...Web pages designed for a particular browser, or requiring specific software are really frustrating.<br /><br />Especially for a Linux/OSX user like myself. I do have a windows desktop, but use it only for a couple flight sim games. It runs Windows XP, believe it or not.<br /><br />Part of this is the arrogance of market domination by uSoft. OS agnosticism is difficult to accomplish. Java was supposed to fix that ( you know, 'write once, run everywhere' ... more typically, 'write once, debug everywhere' ). <br /><br />The best multimedia courseware I've seen has been FAA and AOPA stuff. It's well produced, and runs flawlessly with "Flash" software. Unfortunately, some course designers are given less good tools and off they go.. Good Luck.<br />Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09991660841701835065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-79981555270906519002013-09-09T12:42:18.210+00:002013-09-09T12:42:18.210+00:00I'm not sure what it is about some pilots and ...I'm not sure what it is about some pilots and Human Factors. I think most pilots "get it" but the few who don't end up on the front page. S/He who gets the publicity sets the stereotype. <br /><br />Actually I should re-phrase that as "I'm not sure what it is about some people ..." Having quite a bit of experience in industrial process safety I can assure you it isn't a failing that is unique to the flying community. The big difference is there is very little middle ground when it comes to injury severity in aviation. You don't see a lot of pilots missing fingers or toes, at least not that were lost in flying accidents. In a factory a journeyman or master trades person is a walking billboard for safety.<br /><br />Like all porn, accident porn looses its impact as viewers become jaded. I think aviation safety needs to look at different sources for inspiration. One of the airplanes I've flown was wrecked in a hand propping accident a few years ago. It lost a propeller Nanchuku battle with a larger plane. An interview with the two young boys in the other airplane, taking their first flight with their grandfather, would leave a greater impression than another picture of crumpled aluminium or a burn scar. But that's just my opinion.nec Timidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017143602023726206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-39264331612940928392013-09-08T14:11:21.729+00:002013-09-08T14:11:21.729+00:00"It probably sounds really macabre but in avi..."It probably sounds really macabre but in aviation we do think about these things all the time."<br /><br />Oh, yeah. <i>All</i> the time.<br /><br />My instructor for gliders was teaching me how to "ridge soar." That's where you traverse the upwind side of a ridge, getting lift from the wind being deflected up by the rising terrain. At the end of each traversal, you make a 180 to go the other way. These turns are done close enough to the ground that recovery from an upset would be... problematic.<br /><br />My instructor had me doing this training, this traversing back and forth with turns-close-to-the-ground, on a ridge which was decorated with the wreck of a glider, somewhat crumpled. As I was practicing, my instructor explained how the pilot had, during one of those turns-close-to-the-ground, asked the wings for a bit more alpha than they could manage. In the subsequent stall/spin, the pilot broke both ankles (a lucky outcome). After that, I could hardly make a turn without a brief image of that glider (and two broken ankles!) in my mind. What an effective reminder to stay coordinated and unstalled, better than any slide show or poster.<br /><br />All the time indeed.Wayne Conradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10595005905880642013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-87830727954843982222013-09-08T12:52:00.669+00:002013-09-08T12:52:00.669+00:00This line really did make me laugh out loud
No, I...This line really did make me laugh out loud<br /><br />No, I probably wouldn't try to fly a helicopter, but if I did, it would look like that shortly.<br /><br />Even as a PPL to be , I find human factors to be the topic that is handled the worst in any ground school. To me it is the most important and yet so badly handled. There seems to be a huge disconnect between theory and actual practice. Sit people down with a TAF predicting thunderstorms , high winds and crappy visibility enroute and everyone will nod sagely and say " Oh I'd never fly in that" but everyday people do.LocalFlightEasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00874275201319246223noreply@blogger.com