At 1000ft where the crew has to take a decision, what if the default mode is to call for a go-around and if parameters meet the safe criteria, the...
#pilot monitoring
Will Artificial Intelligence improve pilot behaviour & replace the co-pilot?
Captain & AI Can Artificial intelligence (AI) make the co-pilot's role in the flight deck redundant? Humans are more intolerant when dealing...
Startle vs Surprise and flight crew training
Background Startle and surprise are often cited as potentially contributing factors to aircraft incidents due to their possible negative effects on flight crew performance. In the past, these terms have often been used interchangeably; however, there are distinctive conceptual, behavioural, and physiological differences between the startle reflex and the surprise emotion. The prevalence of startle and surprise on the flight deck has been investigated by examining voluntary incident reports in the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS). Surprise has been found to be more prevalent than startle.
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GoAir passengers survived a wrong engine shutdown, where British Midland and TransAsia couldn’t
Errors in Aviation Decision making, bad decisions or bad luck!
Visual illusion in fog, Spicejet heavy landing saga
How can a combination of surprise event, visual illusion and cognitive lockup lead to a heavy landing? Fog creates visual illusion. Other factors...
Looking London Landing Tokyo, the wrong runway at Haneda:mindFly
Reprocessing the mental image
The CEO’s mind flies, didn’t buy them. Will you?: mindFly
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