July 2024

This month Noelle Brunelle discussed Social Pressures in the Cockpit, a topic of her Master’s Thesis. The complete presentation with links is here and an paper she discussed by researchers at Ames is here. The NTSB report on the Gulfstream accident is fascinating reading.

All of the FAA handbooks can be downloaded on their website; here is the link to the FAA Risk Management Handbook. The Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge has a chapter on Aeronautical Decision Making as well.

We’ve had our share of accidents around KSBP, many of which could have been avoided. The June 2020 notes give details on some of them.

Here is a link to the current USAF version of the HFACS matrix (if anyone is so inclined).