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Showing posts with label flying courses. Show all posts
Friday, 11 December 2015
Saturday, 14 November 2015
We can fly in bad weather - Chillspace UK
So on a day when you’d have to leave the car in the garage and stay at home … the airlines continue operating, albeit in a limited way. That’s not to say that there aren’t some long delays … of course there are but it takes time to clear a runway of snow, and when it’s foggy planes can’t land as frequently … but they are still flying. Things slow down, but they don’t grind to a halt like they do on the roads.Top Tips about weather:
- A plane cannot land or take off if the visibility or wind is outside (see our Premium Course for information).
- A plane cannot make an approach to land if the weather (see our Premium Course for information)
Turbulence for fearful flyers
If you worry about turbulence, you are not alone. It's often compared with driving over a bumpy road, but the difference is that you are travelling ten times as fast in a plane ... so the bumps are going to feel a lot worse. - See more...
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Human Factors and aviation safety
This evening an independent UK television channel broadcast an interesting and generally accurate programme about the crash of a British European Airways Trident aircraft at London Heathrow in the early1970′s.
At the time of the crash I was a co-pilot with the company flying out of Scotland. As an experienced pilot I was allowed to fly a two pilot aircraft even though it was less sophisticated than the modern Trident jet that crashed. To compensate for the lower experience levels of the jet co-pilots, the trident carried two co-pilots. Well known to those of us in the airline at the time was the fact that there had been a very very heated argument in the crew room in London before crash. The argument involved the Captain of the ill fated flight.
Air Show Crash Shoreham UK
Flyingwithoutfear.com and its associated websites has always maintained the principle of factually correct and unambiguous information to help fearful flyers. We strive to use language and descriptions that is consistent with those values and also explains aspects of aviation in a way that helps fearful flyers to overcome their fears.
The descriptions and eye witness accounts of the crash of the 1960′s fighter jet at a flying display are the opposite of what we try to do. It is inevitable that witnesses to an accident of any type are likely to be in a state of shock and their recall of events is going to be influenced by ignorance, emotion and the the views of other witnesses.
There was an experiment many years ago where air accident investigators were taken on a boat trip and by chance during their excursion witnessed the ‘antics’ of an aeroplane which flew near them. Some of those on board were subsequently told that the plane had crashed while others were just told that it had landed safely. Despite the fact that they were all qualified air accident investigators their reports were wildly different.
Monday, 8 June 2015
Safety Briefing
Maybe it’s because I saw a very nasty accident when I was 20, over 50 years ago now.
Ever since then I have been almost obsessive about safety. Although I was happy to fly between trees in my Tiger Moth, happy to do low aerobatics over a girl’s house, I always considered the risks and took them into account.
Safety is no accident. Safety isn’t the result of just being careful, it’s the result of many many strands and threads of behaviour.
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