The Successful Aviation
Professional
AST 141
Professionalism
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Positive, courteous attitude
Punctuality
Appearance
Good follow-through
Concern for other than self
Knowledgeable
Disciplined
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Staying Power- Determination
Focus- Goal oriented
Organized daily routine
Remember the 5 P’s- Proper Planning
Prevents Poor Performance
Integrity
• Do what’s right even when no one’s
watching
• “If you Don’t have your integrity you don’t
have much worth having”
Good Moral Character
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Be willing to accept personal responsibility
Don’t 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
you’ve done, someone’s done it betterbeing cocky will kill you in aviation
Human Factors
An early start
Accidents
• 75% of General aviation accidents are
directly or indirectly caused by the pilotmost occur during takeoff and landing
• Accidents don’t just happen, they have a
chain of events- however subtle
• If you learn to recognize it early on, you can
break it.
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 runwaydeadliest aviation accident ever
• Air Florida Flight 90- icing
• Examples in General Aviation are too
numerous to mention.
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.
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
5 Hazardous attitudes that can
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Anti-authority- Don’t tell me!
Impulsivity- Just do it!
Invulnerability- It’ll never happen to me!
Macho- Watch this!
Resignation- That’s life!
Communication
• Effective Listening
• Barriers to Communication
• Verbal and Non-verbal communication
Resource Use
• Resource Recognition
• Internal resources- handbooks, checklists,
CFI, another pilot, passengers, charts
• External resources- controllers, ground
personnel, FSS
Workload Management
• Planning- to prevent overload to include
delegation
• Prioritize- Learn to do
• Overload- Learn to recognize
Situational Awareness
• Operational Conditions- status of aircraft,
your own ability
• Environmental Conditions- traffic, terrain,
weather, interpersonal
• Recognize obstacles to SA- Stress, sickness,
distractions, fatigue
Barnhart’s Aviation AXIOMS:
Remember!
• 5 P’s
• 3 useless things to a pilot- runway behind you,
altitude above you, air in the tanks
• Learn from the mistakes of others, you won’t live
long enough to make them all yourself.
• Aviate, Navigate, Communicate- in that order
• Keep looking around there’s always something
you’ve missed.
Axioms ctn.
• The only time you have too much fuel is when
you’re on fire.
• Never let your aircraft take you somewhere your
brain didn’t get 5 minutes earlier
• It’s 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.