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A Practical Paranoia for Safety
Being overly confident in your planning and yourself can create serious safety problems. Confidence is a requirement for safe piloting, but ironically, too much confidence can be toxic. Cognitive biases like predictive perception and optimism bias can totally blind us to hazards. A healthy humility (and even paranoia) is a valuable safety tool. Retain the useful paranoia that
The “Pilot-Aircraft-enVironment-External pressure” or PAVE acronym, defines and maintains this safety margin. The dimensions depend on many personal factors, such as experience, skill, recent training, and aircraft familiarity. Winter adds an extra layer to the “Environment” part of the PAVE checklist.
SAFE is tremendously excited – and greatly honored – to be affiliating with the Bob Hoover Legacy Foundation and Aero News Network to expand the reach of our SAFE CFI-PRO™ initiative. This program targets new CFIs in an effort to rapidly improve professionalism and thereby increase aviation safety everywhere. Active aviation educators are the “primary
Thank you for supporting SAFE. I would love to meet you at #OSH22. Please stop by Bravo Hangar, Booth 2092/3 (I am usually there!) We have embroidered patches for members, show discount coupons for sign-ups and everyone can enter our SAFE sweepstakes (Lightspeed Zulu 3, Aerox PrO2 system, Sporty’s PJ2) . Just $15 donation gets you a
Any fan of action sports, whether it’s football or air racing, knows that the greatest moves and memorable moments are not in the huddle (reflective) but during time-critical (reflexive *1) action. These “snapshot moments” are automatically deployed (but previously trained) skills that occur in a few microseconds. The reflective, thoughtful mind is not even in
Schedule Posted Here Soon (and for changes, watch/refresh this page…) Tune in 15:00 EDT Daily for Our Exciting LIVE Show on Gold Seal We will be online every day March 31 (Tues) through April 4th (Sat) at http://www.onlinegroundschool.com/live with a variety of aviation guests you will enjoy! A schedule and more specific information posted here