Author: Alacon Aero
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Seven deadly shortcuts: cognitive biases and aviation
[credit: Flight Safety Australia, written by By Robert Wilson – Jan 30, 2024] The habits and tricks your brain uses to get you through everyday life become a problem when they run riot in the cockpit. We do no end of feeling and we mistake it for thinking. Mark Twain The Nobel Memorial Prize for economics had an…
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Regulations: help or hinderance?
CASA has just published a new regulation. Collective shudders, groans and complaints go up around the aviation community. I’m immediately reminded of NPRM 1001: Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) 1001.1A No pilot, or pilots, or person or persons acting on the direction or suggestion or supervision of the pilot or pilots may try, or…
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‘Drone’ – remove it from your lexicon
I really dislike the term ‘drone’. Its use is synonymous with any unmanned aircraft or aerospace system (UAS). Regardless of size or whether the application is military, industry, hobby or other, we tend to dub any and all pilotless systems as a drone. In the last five years, the taxonomy of drones has become overwhelming,…