Standard Principles And Techniques For International Air Navigation

* Computation of estimated time en route and total fuel requirement for an IFR cross-country flight.

Nicholas Carr, the author of “All Can be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Heads of Machines”, expresses the major concerns towards technology. In this story many crashes and devastating accidents are presented. These accidents could have easily been avoided through the proper knowledge of the air staff members. As a result of technology, pilots are trained less expensively and therefore are unable to react in urgent situations. For example, they now rely on auto-pilot to do more of the directing than they rely on themselves for. This idea is expressed throughout many other stories, demonstrating the lack of knowledge due to the increasing use of technology. One main point that Carr makes is that individuals are constantly starting

Since the beginning of aviation, aircraft have been used for other intentions besides carrying passengers and cargo. They have been used as weapons of war dating all the way back to the first world war, and the use of aircraft has enlightened the advancement of the aviation. “Throughout the history of aviation, the greatest progress in flight has been made during time when either war or the threat of war was present” (Millspaugh, et al., 2008, p. 33). However, the war we face today has been triggered by the deliberate use of aircraft to cause death, destruction, and mayhem.

Every second, minute, hour of every day, an aircraft takes off somewhere around the world. Each flight, all with different operational purposes, destination, have one thing in common. They are all handle by different people in the same way; both on the ground and in flight. The organization responsible for setting these standards and procedures; the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) which is a part of the United Nations Organization. The rapid development of aviation during World War II called for the need for an

The terrorist attacks on September 11 2001 will have a permanent affect on the global culture. Nearly every decision, process, design in the aviation community will be affected from these attacks. The masterminds behind these attaches could not have envisioned how much the world would change from these acts.

Every second, minute, hour of every day, an aircraft takes off somewhere around the world. Each flight, all with different operational purposes, destination, have one thing in common. They are all handled by different people in the same way; both on the ground and in flight. The organization responsible for setting these standards and procedures; the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) which is a part of the United Nations Organization. The rapid development of aviation during World War II called for the need for an

The United Sates is currently the only industrialized country that uses English system (English Units of Measurement 1). A country with such a powerful international influence should be able to communicate information and discoveries with its allies quite effortlessly, but the English system serves as an obstacle that must first be overcome. Language is enough of a barrier; if the metric system was in place, calculations could much more easily be understood. However, there stands the mentality that it would be so much more of a hassle to switch systems. While it is true that it would take time and patience, the payoff would greatly benefit not only the nation itself, but its allies as

I feel many of us as commercial pilot student’s radio communications problems stem from our desire to sound professional over the radios, but the desire to sound good should be a low level concern. Instead, we should desire to communicate effectively. In circumstance the greatest improvement to professionalism on the radio will be established by each pilot who learns to speak briefly and correctly. It is without a doubt that there are proper phraseologies that should be used, but since we cannot learn or create a specific phraseology for every situation, I tell myself, when all else fails, just use English IE ATC are only human! I came across this in the AIM and would like to share it with you all because even though I have gotten much better

2. A.A standard miscommunication experience i have lived through , occurred this summer in munich where i was ordering ice cream with the flavour of coffee but the blue collar worker mistook what i said and thought that i wanted to quench my thirst with actual literal coffee so we kept at it for about 10 min or so trying to walk through the barrier of his broken english and my lack of german.

The countries of the world during this era began to get together in international organizations and start to communicate. However, it was difficult to run multilingual operations and therefore they decided to use the English language in their international interactions.

Communication is becoming more and more of a challenge as workforce is spread across a number of countries – working at airports, hangars or in the air.

The movement of millions of passengers over distances thought impossible decades ago is symbolic of the modern air transportation era that is characterized by speed, comfort and personal convenience. The commerce of aviation, both the operation of commercial aircraft for profit and the development of aeronautical systems, is also an important symbol of national prestige and a powerful economic force. Safety in air transportation is therefore a matter of significant national importance.

The 2012 crash of Convair N153JR is a text book example of how human error and the absence of crew resource management can result in the unnecessary loss of life. This accident involves a transport company named Fresh Air Inc. that transported cargo between the Caribbean islands using vintage 1953 Convair aircraft. The co-owner of the company, who was also the primary pilot, established and nurtured an environment of relaxed rules and desultory aviation operations. The primary pilot consistently flew the Convair aircraft outside its operational parameters by disabling key aircraft systems needed for safe operations. Additionally, the captain filled Fresh Air with incompetent personnel that could not maintain safe and airworthy operations. To further exacerbate an already dangerous situation, assigned Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspectors were derelict in their duties and performed only superficial inspections on the company. Numerous and serious violations were overlooked by the inspectors and this removed the last remaining barrier for accident prevention. The captain’s insouciant approach to flying and company operations coupled with inept FAA oversight directly led to the crash of Convair N153JR.

This portion of the chapter utilized an example of former President Carter’s improperly translated speech in Poland. While not his intent, the translator conveyed President Carter’s “lust for” polish women. This example, one of many, illustrates blunders that can occur in translation.

According to Rodrigues and Cusick (2012) humans are accountable for approximately 70-80% of aviation accidents (p.156). A majority of these are caused by the different variables associated with human performance. Psychological factors have a key role in a pilot’s everyday responsibility. Some of these traits include: perception, memory, attitude, judgment and decision making, as well as ego (Rodrigues & Cusick, 2012, p. 158-160). These qualities can have drastic effects in commercial aviation if they are not recognized and adjusted accordingly. In this paper I will respond to some questions that are raised in aviation safety: