Jason Starke, Ph.D.May 10, 2022Selecting Items To Include on Your FRAT At its core, the Flight Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT) is a pre-flight evaluation of potential threats faced in a mission or flight....
Todd ThomasOct 31, 2021Do You Have A Plan? All organizations need an Emergency Response Plan (ERP). Why? It is all about planning your response before an accident or incident...
Kate JohnpeerOct 17, 2021Are You Risk Blind?If you have a Safety Management System in place in your organization, do you feel you have the risks you deal with under control? Are you...
Don BaldwinDec 22, 2014Safety Management and CRMIn 2008, as Flight 81, a Hawker Beechcraft 125-100A departed Atlantic City, NJ for Owatonna, MN, an uncontrolled airport, on a...
Don BaldwinDec 19, 2014Does SMS Limit Your Operation?Bob Conyers, Senior Manager, Safety Occasionally people who are contemplating SMS implementation express the concern that “SMS will place...
Don BaldwinDec 11, 2014To Share or Not to Share?Modern, technology-based safety systems like SMS depend on data. Lots of data. Presumably, the more data, the better the system. If it...
Don BaldwinDec 9, 2014Cyber attacks, drones to impact aviation safety: studyThere are new risks facing the aviation industry, with the threat of cyber attacks on automated systems and the growth of drones in...
Don BaldwinDec 2, 2014NASA Offers Online Aircraft Icing RefresherNASA’s online Pilot Guide to In-Flight Icing offers a review of the science behind ice creation, the symptoms of its effects on flight...
Don BaldwinNov 21, 2014Canada's TSB To Study Risks Associated With Air Taxi OperationsStudy To Begin Early Next Year In a speech Wednesday to the Air Transport Association of Canada, Kathy Fox, Chair of the Transportation...
Don BaldwinOct 14, 2014Wildlife strikes and the impact on aviationJan. 15, 2009 was a day that changed the aviation world forever. U.S. Airways flight 1549, with service from New York's Laguardia Airport...
Don BaldwinOct 5, 2014IHST Identifies 'Recommended Reading' For Helicopter PilotsOnline Documents Offers Solid Foundation To Enhance Safety, Reduce Accidents Most of the time, getting back to basics can be a helicopter...
Don BaldwinSep 18, 2014Fighting FatigueTransport Canada is joining a number of other regulators in enacting changes to fatigue risk management regulations that are backed by...
Don BaldwinSep 9, 2014Another event involving erroneous data entry prior to departure…On 20 December 2009 an aircraft almost stalled at high altitude after the crew attempted to continue climbing beyond the maximum...