March 08 Safety Meeting

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March 08 Safety Meeting

• Larry Brockshus

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Overview

• Who is the new MN Wing CAP Safety guy?
• Operation CAPSafe
• Safety Quotations.

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New New Safety Guy

• CAP Lt Col Larry Brockshus
• CAP member July 2007
• Lt Col (Ret) Larry Brockshus, USAF
• Retired March 2007
• NCLR/CC 2003-2006
• 5,000 hrs KC-135, Cessna 182, and others

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A word from NHQ

• Operation CAPSafe
• From NHQ CAP/SE
• Each member send in a safety idea of the month
• Send to
• CAPSafe_at_cap.gov
• or
• NHQ CAP/SE
• 105 South Hansell Street
• Maxwell AFB, AL  36112-6332

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Operation CAPSafe

• or
• How not to break anything or hurt anybody.

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Operation CAPSafe

• The CAP Interim National Commander, Brig Gen Amy
  Courter, CAP-USAF CC, Col Russ Hodgkins, myself,
  Col Lyle Letteer as the National Safety Officer,
  and NHQ are very concerned with safety being in
  the forefront of everyones mind. Whether they
  are volunteering for CAP or in their everyday
  lives we are looking to give each member a safety
  mindset that will carry them safely through their
  daily activities.

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Operation CAPSafe

• As such it is our intent to give every CAP
  member, cadet or officer, the tools to achieve
  the goal of a safety mindset.
• We only ask that every CAP member look through
  these slides and participate in this once monthly
  activity.

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Operation CAPSafe

• What is Operation CAPSafe?
• Have every CAP Officer and Cadet member send in
  one Safety idea a month for either Ground Safety,
  Air Safety, or both.
• This is a way to have every Officer and Cadet
  member think of Safety at least once a month.
• This will help to instill a Safety Mindset into
  every CAP member.

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Operation CAPSafe

• Where do I send my Operation CAPSafe ideas?
• CAPSafe_at_cap.gov
• or
• NHQ CAP/SE
• 105 South Hansell Street
• Maxwell AFB, AL  36112-6332

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Operation CAPSafe

• Each month, the best Safety Idea for Air and
  Ground will receive an Operation CAPSafe
  promotional item.
• It room permits, your winning suggestions will be
  printed in the Sentinel.
• Everyone please remember, Safety is only common
  sense.

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Great Quotations on Flight

• Slipping the Surly Bonds
• Author Dave English
• Not just for fliers
• Most quotes apply equally well for a CAP member
  driving a 15 pax van
• Or, your drive home tonight.

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Cant beat the laws of physics

• Flying is inherently dangerous. We like to gloss
  that over with cleaver rhetoric and comforting
  statistics, but the facts remain gravity is
  constant and powerful, and speed kills. In
  combination, they are particularly destructive.
• Dan Manningham, Business and Commercial Aviation
  magazine.

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Cessnas are forgiving...

• The Cub is the safest airplane in the world it
  can just barely Kill you
• Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot
• Airplanes may kill you but they aint likely to
  hurt you.
• Leroy Robert, baseball player
• Airplanes are near perfect all they lack is the
  ability to forgive.
• Richard Collins

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An unforgiving nature

• Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous.
  But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is
  terribly unforgiving of any carelessness,
  incapacity or neglect.
• Anon, back to WWII

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Luck

• This thing we call luck is merely professionalism
  and attention to detail.. Luck is the sum total
  of your abilities as an aviator. If you think
  your luck is running low youd better get busy
  and make some more. Work harder. Pay more
  attention. Study more. Do better preflights.
• Stephen Coonts, The Intruders

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Complacency

• Nobody who gets damned relaxed builds up much
  flying time.
• Ernest K Gann, advice from a very old pelican of
  an aviator, The Black Watch
• Mix ignorance with Arrogance at low altitude and
  the results are almost guaranteed to be
  spectacular.
• Bruce Landsberg, executive Director of AOPA Air
  Safety Foundation

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CRM

• God, look at that thing! That dont seem right ,
  does it?
• Thats not right.
• First Officer Roger Pettit, during takeoff roll,
  Air Florida Flight 90, Jan 13, 1982

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CRM

• Larry! Were going down, Larry!
• I know it.
• First Officer Roger Pettit and Capt. Larry
  Wheaton, last words recorded before hitting the
  13th St Bridge, Air Florida Flight 90, Jan 13,
  1982

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Lessons Learned???

• There are no new types of aircrashes---only
  people with short memories. Every accident has
  its own forerunners, and every one happens either
  because someone did not know where to draw the
  vital line.or well-meaning people deemed the
  risk acceptable.
• Stephen Barlay, The Final Call Why Airline
  Disasters Continue to Happen

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Leadership

• Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure
  of the organization.
• Jerome Lederer
• Id hate to see an epitaph on a pilots
  tombstone that says, I told you I needed
  training.
• Col Boots Boothby, USAF

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Leadership

• Corporate culture has a very real influence on
  the attitudes and performance of the people
  within an organization. There is no question in
  my mind that management decisions and actions, or
  more frequently, indecision's and inaction's
  cause accidents.
• John Lauber, NTSB

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Leadership Complacency

• Complacency or the false sense of security should
  not be allowed to develop as a result of long
  periods without an accident or serious incident.
  An organization with a good safety record is not
  necessarily a safe organization.
• International Civil Aviation Organization

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Advice

• When a prang seems inevitable, endeavor to strike
  the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity, as
  slowly as possible
• RAF pilot during WWII

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Closing Thought

• When we talk about a pilot who has been killed in
  a flying accident, we should all keep one thing
  in mind. He called upon the sum of all his
  knowledge and made a judgment, He believed in it
  so strongly that he knowingly bet his life on it.
  That his judgment was faulty is a tragedy, not
  stupidity. Every instructor, supervisor, and
  contemporary who ever spoke to him had an
  opportunity to influence his judgment, so a
  little bit of all of us goes with every pilot we
  lose.
• Anon

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Be Safe