To put into perspective of how important these basic procedures are, just remember the 777 at JFK which taxied on the wrong route and crossed an active runway Jan 2023.
I flew for a furniture company in Huntingburg Indiana who used to make pianos. They were the worst with this kind of stuff. Returning home each pilot would text their wives in the traffic pattern when they needed to be concentrating on the landing. Checklist were a bla bla item. One pilot wearing a mask at 40,000 feet was silly. Broken items always were broke on last leg home with no trip tomorrow. Our approved jep charts were on laptop in back closet. We were only allowed to print ILS charts for destination to save on paper. Unapproved tablet which overheated and locked up was our main chart. Most felt below glide path approaches made shorter landings which is why none of them could make a descent crosswind landing. Dragging the gear in the corn, they floated and floated down the runway in ground effect. When I showed the chief pilot a steeper approach made a shorter landing, he fired me. He turned a simple bleed air problem into a full blown emergency at Midway. So embarrassed he refused to get fuel on the return leg landing with half our reserves. Getting fired was the best thing that ever happen to me!
Nice video. Another good reference is The Multitasking Myth: Handling Complexity in Real-World Operations by Dr Key DIsmukes, who did this research for decades with NASA's Flight Cognition Lab. Key was also an accomplished glider and light aircraft pilot, unfortunately he has flown West, but his work lives on. I've done aviation safety and this book is a tie for the number one book in my professional library, along with The Limits of Expertise: Rethinking Pilot Error and the Causes of Airline Accidents. Ben Berman, Loukia D. Loukopoulos and Immanuel Barshi (Contributors) Fly Smart, Kent Lewis 2009 FAASTeam Rep of the Year/Air Line Captain
Great video - please keep them coming!
To put into perspective of how important these basic procedures are, just remember the 777 at JFK which taxied on the wrong route and crossed an active runway Jan 2023.
I flew for a furniture company in Huntingburg Indiana who used to make pianos. They were the worst with this kind of stuff. Returning home each pilot would text their wives in the traffic pattern when they needed to be concentrating on the landing. Checklist were a bla bla item. One pilot wearing a mask at 40,000 feet was silly. Broken items always were broke on last leg home with no trip tomorrow. Our approved jep charts were on laptop in back closet. We were only allowed to print ILS charts for destination to save on paper. Unapproved tablet which overheated and locked up was our main chart. Most felt below glide path approaches made shorter landings which is why none of them could make a descent crosswind landing. Dragging the gear in the corn, they floated and floated down the runway in ground effect. When I showed the chief pilot a steeper approach made a shorter landing, he fired me. He turned a simple bleed air problem into a full blown emergency at Midway. So embarrassed he refused to get fuel on the return leg landing with half our reserves. Getting fired was the best thing that ever happen to me!
Nice video. Another good reference is The Multitasking Myth: Handling Complexity in Real-World Operations by Dr Key DIsmukes, who did this research for decades with NASA's Flight Cognition Lab. Key was also an accomplished glider and light aircraft pilot, unfortunately he has flown West, but his work lives on. I've done aviation safety and this book is a tie for the number one book in my professional library, along with The Limits of Expertise: Rethinking Pilot Error and the Causes of Airline Accidents. Ben Berman, Loukia D. Loukopoulos and Immanuel Barshi (Contributors) Fly Smart, Kent Lewis 2009 FAASTeam Rep of the Year/Air Line Captain
Crosswind Landings, soft field landings, single engine practice on twins require Coordinated Multitasking. But panic kills multitasking. Dont Panic.