“Just this once” is a dangerous phrase to think or say to yourself. Often it serves as an excuse to do something you know you shouldn’t. ~ Carl Richards, author of The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to Be Smart About Your Money. Insights into our behavior with money often translate well into airmanship ideas.
Tag: risk
Sleep and Air Crew Fatigue Management.
“As long as human beings are pilots . . . fatigue will be a critical safety issue that demands our attention.” Sleep and Air Crew Fatigue Management, excellent serious article in Business & commercial Aviation magazine. Airmanship demands alertness. Quotes Sully Sullenberger, the NTSB’s Mark Rosekind, and many more.
Somber Reading About F/A-18C Accident
“An overreliance on technology can be a disadvantage.” Official report of a USN F/A-18C fatal accident that also talked about ‘situational awareness’. Good weather. Good plane. Good pilot. Always risky aircraft carrier operations. All this and more in a somber New York Times article
Managing Risk and Anticipating Challenges
“The appeal of a physically perilous sport … isn’t the inherent danger of it. It’s about the process of managing risk and anticipating challenges. You need to figure out how to prepare and control everything you can, and then you need to be ready for the things you can’t control.” Ashley Merryman, co-author of ‘Top Dog: The Science of Winning …
Illusion of Airline Safety Systems
This is a link to an excellent article, Illusions of Safety, published yesterday by the Royal Aeronautical Society. It’s written by Dr Rob Hunter, Head of Flight Safety, British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA). While it is most directly aimed at the safety professionals that regulate and manage airline safety departments, it has interesting reverberations into any personal risk management discussion. Is …
Allan Lokos on What We Control
Allan Lokos is the founder and guiding teacher of the community Meditation Center in New York City, and author of several books on peaceful living. On Christmas day, 2012, Lokos and his wife were in a fiery plane crash in Burma. Many doctors told him he would not survive his injuries. Yet he did. And continued to thrive. That journey …
Vicky Benzing on Risk
In anything that has some level of risk I like to be well practiced. ~ Vicky Benzing, aerobatic and Reno air race pilot. Quoted in Flying magazine, March 2015.
Boeing’s Chief Test Pilot on Risk Management
We think of all the what ifs, we think of getting into the maneuvers, getting out of the maneuvers, we talk about each individual person’s role on that flight. We talk about risk … and we talk about ways that we take the risk and minimize it to the lowest level possible so that we go out and execute the …