Author Archives: Patti Arnott

You have less than 10 seconds to survive a loss of control in-flight event. Do I have your attention?

How’s the culture at your operation?
If it’s good and healthy, good for you. I’ll bet it took a fair bit of effort to get it there.

Every day we make risk-based decisions, all while trying to maintain the forward movement of our organizations. For many, this involves several moving parts, lots of input from our team, and…some secret sauce to help the process along.

In any industry, good leaders are paramount to running a successful business.

In the U.S., FARs give us guidance on what we train, how we train, and when we train.

With Flight Data Monitoring becoming more commonplace throughout the industry, it has proven a very valuable tool to track performance of not only the flight crews but the machines as well.

With SMS programs finally taking hold and becoming more mature and therefore, effective, we will look at ways to further improve these critical programs. An SMS is only as good as the people who live within it, right?

Part of evaluating good CRM, one must also look at culture – not just organizational or safety culture, but the cultures of the people you might interact with throughout your mission.

We’ve all come across folks in this business that stand out from the rest. What is it about them that caught our attention?