This blog is about air traffic management. But, by the nature of our business, we tend to travel more than the average citizen and the pilots among us spend half their life strapped to the aircraft that carry us around. So it is appropriate to say something for once as a passenger rather than the… Continue reading Safety briefing – the missing element
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Pilot fatigue – The views of the Flight Safety Foundation
The issue of fatigue in the cockpit, and outside it among maintenance personnel for example, has been on the agenda for some time now and things were brought to a head by the Colgan Air crash in Buffalo on Feb. 12, 2009. Predictably, the reactions are varied and range from the studied to the opportunistic.… Continue reading Pilot fatigue – The views of the Flight Safety Foundation
System Wide Information Management (SWIM) – Here and now
That in ATM we are only now taking the first tentative steps to set the scene for the implementation of System Wide Information Management (SWIM) is not due in any way to SWIM being so complicated, it needing rocket science or yet to be invented technologies. Many an “expert” would make you believe this to… Continue reading System Wide Information Management (SWIM) – Here and now
We need pro-active safety
After two aircraft collided over Zagreb on 10 September 1976, authorities in the region started to scramble, speeding up the introduction of more modern ATC equipment. The Uberlingen mid-air in 2002 highlighted several shortcomings in pilot training as well as ATC practices. Then we jump to 2009 and a crash near Buffalo in the US… Continue reading We need pro-active safety
SKYbrary to be further refined
EUROCONTROL publishes SKYbrary, an electronic repository of safety data related to ATM and aviation safety in general. It is built of a hyperlinked network of articles and documents. The article is the building nucleus of the knowledge base. It can contain links to other related articles, to documents stored on the Skybrary bookshelf or to… Continue reading SKYbrary to be further refined
Towards a net-centric system
In the numerous descriptions of the future air traffic management system, the term “net-centric” appears over and over. What does net-centric really mean and how will such a system improve safety and flight efficiency? Watch this space for a forthcoming post on this fascinating subject, the latest in our series “Buzzwords explained”.