I strongly agree with Richard on this issue.
Material presented with the aim of increasing safety is duly digested and stored
away, hopefully increasing ones level of safe behaviour. The crash comics
however seem to have far more bite, the material presented is chillingly real &
often gives one reason to pause and consider the particular case. It shouldn't
really be so but at least in my own personal experience I have found that it has
a greater impact.
The act of learning from the misfortune of another without bearing the
accompanying cost is fundamental. ( Unless you are a teenager in which case none
of the above applies & it is absolutely necessary to go & repeat the mistakes of
others ;-)
Cheers
Don
Mark Newton wrote:
McLean Richard wrote:
Writing about them makes them
more visible - we can all get complacent. Pilots may
find it hard to relate the little tidbits he/she does
hear about potential deadly habits or omissions to
their own flying until they actually see /hear of it
happening or read about it. The more he/she reads
about it the more their level of consciousness is
raised.
All agreed.
Now, think about this: If we can agree that writing about this stuff
is a worthwhile exercise, what's the better investment in effort?
Waiting for an actual accident to happen where someone really gets hurt
and writing about it post-mortem, or making use of the fact that we
already know what the accident is going to be and writing about it
proactively instead?
If there's consensus that the magazine needs more safety-related
writing, why not just dispense with the charades about the importance
of accident reports and just get on with writing it?
Anyone can send articles to Soaring Australia. If readers of this
mailing list think there are new lessons to learn, and think the magazine
is an appropriate forum for teaching them, why don't they stop talking
about it and provide us with the benefit of their knowledge?
- mark
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