This is an interesting article: The Art of Airmanship, by Christopher L. Parker, in AOPA’s Flight Training magazine, Aug 2006. A nice read, but I do have some comments. Like why oh why is the word Art at the start of the title but never mentioned in the article! The author states “Airmanship used to be about basic stick and rudder skills.” …
Tag: airmanship
Learning from Seamanship Definitions
The preface to the book Seamanship by Peter Kemp starts with two definitions. One from the Oxford English Dictionary: The art or practice of managing a ship at sea. and one from the Encyclopaedia Britannica: The art of sailing, maneuvering, and preserving a ship or boat in all positions and under all reasonable conditions. Notice how they both start. Seamanship is an …
Quick Thinking Airmanship Saves the Day
Quick thinking airmanship saves the day. What would you do if the windshield become completely unusable, covered in sea salt? The Irish Independent has the amazing full story: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/irish-pilots-save-plane-and-46-passengers-during-landing-aaiu-31186623.html
Planes Without Pilots?
If you put more technology in the cockpit, you have more technology that can fail. ~ Amy Pritchett, Professor of Cognitive Engineering at Georgia Tech. Quoted in the New York Times article Planes Without Pilots. The same piece also quotes the normally enthusiastic Professor Mary Cummings, a former fighter pilot and currently director of Duke University’s Humans and Autonomy Lab, …
Matt Hall on Not Judging an Accident from the Outcome
Matt Hall is a former fighter combat instructor and international unlimited aerobatic competitor who now competes in the Red Bull air races. His latest airmanship blog post takes a look at the recent Harrison Ford and SpaceShipTwo crashes. It’s worth reading. Don’t judge an incident or accident based on the outcome. We always need to look deeper…the preparation, the planning, …
Sound Familiar?
“Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea.”
Sometimes Airmanship is Not Flying
The US Department of Labor recently released an order with a rare win for an individual pilot against a large corporation. They are requiring that Air Methods (who operate over 400 helicopters) pay the pilot employee about $160,000 in lost pay and damages after he refused to fly a mission because of an airworthiness issue (the emergency locator transmitter that was …