While it is understandable to look at accidents with the view to either
learn from them or be reminded about fallability; beyond the events and
factors noted by earlier emails, it is also helpful to bear trends in
mind.
This is about getting insights into wider contributors before and after.
(There have been off list conversations about succour to pilots, clubs
and individuals affected by accidents.)
Keeping trends in mind is part of the 'held corporate knowledge' across
the sport.
It goes back to the late Mike Valentine's analyses of accident rate
fluctuations which can be aligned with changes in committee, CFI, RTO
and GFA incumbencies and how that corporate knowledge either was or was
not passed on.
From this we know that accident rates will rise and fall over a cyclic
period. This has nothing to do with knowing the contributing causes to
the individual accident; it is about reminding ourselves that safety
focus in pilots, clubs and other levels will inevitably vary,
particularly when we have had a preceding low incident/accident period.
On 25/04/2012, at 10:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Well pilots have been crashing, and in many cases dying, since man
took to the air. Every possible means of crashing has been explored
from that time until now. I suspect that all the possibilities for
human error were exhausted long ago: Hence the lack of ATSB interest.
As a result of these experiences the GFA produced a Manual of
Standard Procedures. You are of course perfectly free to ignore the
accumulated wisdom of ages, as set out in this document and taught by
every accredited instructor, but you do so at your peril.
(To be pedantic, MOSP was written by volunteers, paid for by CASA, GFA
just takes credit for it).
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