Objective data coming from the aircraft!  Great organizations manage what they measure! How is the aircraft being flown?  Were there deviations from standard procedures? Was it a long landing or a hard landing?  Most importantly, what can we learn from each flight toward improving our performance? Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) is the process of collecting flight data from the aircraft to identify information such as altitude, airspeed, heading, and […]
Safety management is about addressing hazards and reducing risk to acceptable levels.  How we go about doing that is not always formal and with recent events, there is no better time than now to take a step back and assess the way our organizations operate safely. As noted, there have been a lot of highly publicized accidents in our industry in the past couple of months.  It’s easy to waive […]
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