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  • Chapter 6: Threat and Error Management › Causes of Errors › Inadequate Flight Planning or Preparation

    Inadequate Flight Planning or Preparation Chapters 3, 4, and 5 of this handbook discuss risk analysis as an important step in the flight planning process. However, the pilot can only conduct a preflight risk analysis based on the information gathered ... before flight. Inadequate flight planning may leave a pilot in unanticipated conditions and can lead to errors. For example, a pilot dropped off a passenger at the Edward F. Knapp State airport (KMPV) in rural Vermont and expected to refuel…

  • Chapter 2: Human Behavior › Learner Emotional Reactions › Apathy Due to Inadequate Instruction

    Apathy Due to Inadequate Instruction Learners can become apathetic when they recognize that the instructor has made inadequate preparations for the instruction being given, or when the instruction appears to be deficient, contradictory, or insincere. To hold the learner…

  • Chapter 9: Techniques of Flight Instruction › Practical Flight Instructor Strategies

    flight—review or discuss flight events and choices using ADM principles. Plan a remediation if trends indicate an inadequate skill, a hazardous attitude, or inadequate knowledge of risk mitigation. Flight instructors should produce safe pilots. For that reason, instructors should…

  • Chapter 8: Flight Instruments › Gyroscopic Flight Instruments › Turn Coordinator

    angle of bank. Figure 8-21. Turn indicators rely on controlled precession for their operation. Figure 8-22. If inadequate right rudder is applied in a right turn, a slip results. Too much right rudder causes the aircraft to skid…

  • Chapter 2: Human Behavior › Learner Emotional Reactions › Physical Discomfort, Illness, Fatigue, and Dehydration

    completely at ease, and whose attention is diverted by discomforts such as the extremes of temperature, poor ventilation, inadequate lighting, or noise and confusion, cannot learn at a normal rate. This is true no matter how diligently they attempt…

  • Chapter 13: Transition to Multiengine Airplanes › Low Altitude Engine Failure Scenarios › Landing Gear Control Selected Up, Single-Engine Climb Performance Inadequate

    Landing Gear Control Selected Up, Single-Engine Climb Performance Inadequate When operating near or above the single-engine ceiling and an engine failure is experienced shortly after lift-off, a landing needs to be accomplished on whatever essentially lies ahead ... performance capability of the airplane to do so. An accident is inevitable. Figure 13-19. Engine failure on takeoff, inadequate climb performance. Analysis of engine failures on takeoff reveals a very high success rate of off-airport engine inoperative landings…