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  • Chapter 3: The Learning Process › Errors › Learning from Error

    Error Recovery Given that the occasional error is inevitable, it is a worthwhile exercise to practice recovering from commonly made errors, or those that pose serious consequences. All flight learners need to learn and practice a lost procedure to ensure ... which they have lost their way. It is useful to devote the same sort of preparation to other common learner errors. Learning from Error Error can be a valuable learning resource. Learners naturally make errors, which instructors can utilize…

  • Chapter 6: Threat and Error Management › Causes of Errors › Insufficient Training & Experience

    Chapter 6: Threat and Error Management Introduction Threats What is an Error? Causes of Errors Insufficient Training & Experience Introduction Pilots use risk management as described in earlier chapters to analyze the likelihood and potential severity of an incident or accident ... encounter unforeseen hazards or threats. In addition, a pilot may respond inappropriately to a given condition, thus making an error. This chapter provides strategies pilots may use once flight begins. Threats Threats have the following characteristics: • Threats occur outside…

  • Glossary › Pilot’s Operating Handbook/Airplane Flight Manual

    Relative bearing indicator (RBI). Also known as the fixedcard ADF, zero is always indicated at the top of the instrument and the needle indicates the relative bearing to the station. Relative humidity. The ratio of the existing amount of water ... given temperature to the maximum amount that could exist at that temperature; usually expressed in percent. Relative wind. Direction of the airflow produced by an object moving through the air. The relative wind for an airplane in flight flows…

  • Chapter 6: Threat and Error Management › Causes of Errors › Psychological Effects

    progress. External pressures from outside sources including supervisors, family, and friends may bias a pilot to make an error in an effort to complete a flight as originally planned. What does the pilot actually think about before making a decision ... priority may cause the pilot to err. 18395 An emotional response could appear spontaneously and lead to an error at any time. After an emotional shock or an important life event, the pilot may not be able to concentrate…

  • Chapter 1: Risk Management and Single-Pilot Resource Management › Single-Pilot Resource Management (SRM) › Task Management

    task is a function performed by a human, as opposed to one performed by a machine (e.g., setting the target heading in the autopilot). The flight deck is an environment in which important tasks compete for pilot attention ... given time. TM determines which tasks the pilot(s) should attend to. TM entails initiation of new tasks; monitoring of ongoing tasks to determine their status; prioritization of tasks based on their importance, status, urgency, and other factors; allocation…

  • Chapter 8: Flight Instruments › Compass Systems › Magnetic Compass Induced Errors

    Figure 8-36. Northerly and southerly turning errors. Southerly Turning Errors When turning in a southerly direction, the forces are such that the compass float assembly lags rather than leads. The result is a false southerly turn indication. The compass ... float assembly, should be allowed to pass the desired heading prior to stopping the turn. As with the northerly error, this error is amplified with the proximity to either magnetic pole. To correct this lagging error, the aircraft should…