"...a definitive and invaluable roadmap through a landscape of shattered
airplanes and lives in which the telling of each and every incident offers a
very real pass to avoiding the same fate."
--John J. Nance
Flying involves risks. Fortunately, most of these risks have been identified
and managed down to remarkably low levels. However, accidents still occur, and
the key to successful flight is an in-depth knowledge of the risks and how to
effectively manage them.
Managing Risk: Best Practices for Pilots uses actual aircraft accident
examples, statistics, aviation safety studies, and the authors' more than 60
years of combined experience as pilots and flight safety educators to document
and describe the 10 most significant accident threat categories, and shed light
on the applicable human-factor issues that make pilots vulnerable to them.
This book provides practical strategies as well as "best practice"
countermeasures pilots can use to avoid or effectively manage risks during
crucial phases of flight. Readers will have a more complete knowledge of the
external threats to flight safety, coupled with a deeper understanding of how
human errors often play out in the cockpit.
Students and pilots at all certificate levels will improve their risk
management skills by learning the practices described in this book, and ATP
applicants will find it fulfills a portion of the new knowledge requirements
that become effective August 1, 2014.
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Softcover, 248 pages.