From this year’s safety events it seems that the emphasis at the end of 2015 is on some very important challenges for our industry, subjects that every aviation organization is trying to stay ahead of. The agendas from many events around aviation this year are looking strangely similar—perhaps for good reason—but maybe to the exclusion …
Every aviation professional learned early in their careers that if they plan to be in aviation, they have no choice to be a safety professional, too. Like so many others, every year at this time I keep a bag packed for a series of Fall events that start as dates on a calendar—mere safety symposiums—but …
There are many “models” which have been offered up to flight crews over the past several decades that seek to explain the role of automation on the flight deck. Some have proven remarkably durable and easy to adopt, others have persisted in spite of the fact that they only obscure the essential knowledge that we …
As a pilot, part-time researcher, and full-time technology advocate, I am occasionally privileged to witness the latest cockpit technology up close, thanks to our contacts within the aviation industry. Not only that, I spend upwards of 8 hours a week reading trade journals from not just aviation, but across contemporary business and industry. One result …
Sixty-three years ago this week one of the earliest commercially available computers was delivered to the US Government by the Remington Rand Corporation, UNIVAC-1. The joke that circulated for years afterward goes like this: A bunch of scientists created a huge machine capable of complex calculations and called it UNIVAC. Eager to test their invention, …
If you are in a position in your own organization to evaluate incoming talent (let’s say you take part in the selection process for new hire crewmembers) or evaluate the talent you already have (you might be a Chief Pilot, Check Airman or FAA Designee, let’s say) you are constantly being bombarded with the threat …