The Successful Aviation Professional

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The Successful Aviation Professional

• AST 141

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Professionalism

• Positive, courteous attitude
• Punctuality
• Appearance
• Good follow-through
• Concern for other than self
• Knowledgeable

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Disciplined

• Staying Power- Determination
• Focus- Goal oriented
• Organized daily routine
• Remember the 5 Ps- Proper Planning Prevents
  Poor Performance

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Integrity

• Do whats right even when no ones watching
• If you Dont have your integrity you dont have
  much worth having

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Good Moral Character

• Be willing to accept personal responsibility
• Dont bow to peer pressure
• Alcohol/Drugs can ruin an aviation career
• One of the requirements for an ATP
• Have a degree of humility- No matter what youve
  done, someones done it better- being cocky will
  kill you in aviation

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Human Factors

• An early start

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Accidents

• 75 of General aviation accidents are directly or
  indirectly caused by the pilot- most occur during
  takeoff and landing
• Accidents dont just happen, they have a chain of
  events- however subtle
• If you learn to recognize it early on, you can
  break it.

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Notable crew caused accidents

• United 173- Portland, DC-8- ran out of fuel while
  trying to fix landing gear
• Eastern Airlines L-1011, 1972- flew into ground
  under same circumstances
• Pan-AM, KLM 747 collision on runway- deadliest
  aviation accident ever
• Air Florida Flight 90- icing
• Examples in General Aviation are too numerous to
  mention.

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Aeronautical Decision Making

• Crew Resource Management- Using all available
  resources to solve a problem
• Factors which affect aeronautical decision
  making- PIC responsibility, communication,
  workload management, resource use, and
  situational awareness.

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PIC responsiblity

• Fit to Fly?- level of stress, general
  health,knowledge skill, recency of experience,
  attitude propensity (?)
• PIC responsibility concepts
• Self assessment
• Hazardous Attitudes (next)
• Interpersonal relationships

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5 Hazardous attitudes that can kill in an airplane

• Anti-authority- Dont tell me!
• Impulsivity- Just do it!
• Invulnerability- Itll never happen to me!
• Macho- Watch this!
• Resignation- Thats life!

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Communication

• Effective Listening
• Barriers to Communication
• Verbal and Non-verbal communication

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Resource Use

• Resource Recognition
• Internal resources- handbooks, checklists, CFI,
  another pilot, passengers, charts
• External resources- controllers, ground
  personnel, FSS

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Workload Management

• Planning- to prevent overload to include
  delegation
• Prioritize- Learn to do
• Overload- Learn to recognize

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Situational Awareness

• Operational Conditions- status of aircraft, your
  own ability
• Environmental Conditions- traffic, terrain,
  weather, interpersonal
• Recognize obstacles to SA- Stress, sickness,
  distractions, fatigue

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Barnharts Aviation AXIOMS Remember!

• 5 Ps
• 3 useless things to a pilot- runway behind you,
  altitude above you, air in the tanks
• Learn from the mistakes of others, you wont live
  long enough to make them all yourself.
• Aviate, Navigate, Communicate- in that order
• Keep looking around theres always something
  youve missed.

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Axioms ctn.

• The only time you have too much fuel is when
  youre on fire.
• Never let your aircraft take you somewhere your
  brain didnt get 5 minutes earlier
• Its always better to be down here wishing you
  were up there than up there wishing you were down
  here
• Think! Every takeoff is optional every landing is
  mandatory
• There are 3 rules for making good landings
  unfortunately nobody knows what they are.