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  • Chapter 2: Ground Operations › Risk and Resource Management › Resource Management

    Human Resource Management Human resource management requires an effective use of all available resources: human, equipment, and information. Human resources include the essential personnel routinely working with the pilot to ensure safety of flight. These people include ... some situations safely. Equipment in many of today’s aircraft includes automated flight and navigation systems. These automatic systems, while providing relief from many routine tasks, present a different set of problems for pilots. The automation intended to reduce pilot…

  • Appendix B: Acronyms, Abbreviations, and NOTAM Contractions

    data processing system OFT—outer fix time OFZ—obstacle free zone OM—outer marker OMB—Office Of Management and Budget ONER—Oceanic Navigational Error Report OPLT—operational acceptable level of traffic OPR—operate OPS—operation OPSW—operational switch ... oceanic transition route OTS—out of service; organized track system OVR—over PABX—private automated branch exchange PAD—packet assembler/disassembler PAEW—personnel and equipment working PAM—peripheral adapter module PAPI—precision approach path indicator PAR—precision approach radar; preferential arrival…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Information Management › Risk Management

    course. The pilots were equipped with the proper charts, their route was posted on the charts, and they had a paper navigation log indicating the direction of each leg. They had all the tools to manage and monitor their flight ... instead allowed the automation to fly and manage itself. The system did exactly what it was programmed to do; it flew on a programmed course into a mountain resulting in multiple deaths. The pilots simply failed to manage the system…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Information Management › Enhanced Situational Awareness

    • Perform verification check of all programming. Before departure, check all information programmed…

  • 14 CFR § 61.156 Training requirements: Airplane category—multiengine class or multiengine airplane type rating concurrently with an airline transport pilot certificate.

    Minimum equipment list/configuration deviation list; (vi) Ground operations; (vii) Turbine engines; (viii) Transport category aircraft performance; (ix) Automation, navigation, and flight path warning systems. (4) At least 6 hours of instruction on leadership, professional development, crew resource management, and safety…