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Notes on Aviation Safety and Operations
Short pieces on fatigue risk management, Safety Management Systems, operations manuals, and the litigation issues that follow from all three.
Operations
Rethinking the go around mentality
Do we properly plan for a go around, or is it a last minute decision when all else fails?
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FRMS
Understanding Part 117: What the Fatigue Rules Actually Require
Part 117 gets treated as a scheduling formula. It is actually a fatigue management framework, and the difference matters more than most operators realize.
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SMS
The Four Pillars of SMS, and Why Most Programs Only Have Three
Safety Policy, Safety Risk Management, Safety Assurance, Safety Promotion. Most programs I review are missing the same one.
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Operations
What Makes an Operations Manual Defensible
A manual that reads well and a manual that holds up under scrutiny are not always the same document.
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