ASA Managing Risk: Best Practices for Pilots (eBook EB)

“...a definitive and invaluable roadmap through a landscape of shattered airplanes and lives in which the telling of each and every incident offers a very real pass to avoiding the same fate.”--John J. Nance Flying involves risks. Fortunately, most of these risks have been identified and managed down to remarkably low levels. However, accidents still occur, and the key to successful flight is an in-depth knowledge of the risks and how to effectively manage them. Managing Risk: Best Practices for Pilots uses actual aircraft accident examples, statistics, aviation safety studies, and the authors’ more than 60 years of combined experience as pilots and flight safety educators to document and describe the 10 most significant accident threat categories, and shed light on the applicable human-factor issues that make pilots vulnerable to them. This book provides practical strategies as well as best practice countermeasures pilots can use to avoid or effectively manage risks during crucial p