The Aviation Safety Reporting System is a cooperative program established by the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of the Assistant Administrator for System Safety, and administered by NASA The ASRS collects, analyzes, and responds to voluntarily submitted aviation safety incident reports in order to lessen the likelihood of aviation accidents. ASRS data are used to: Identify … Continue reading The Aviation Safety Reporting System
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The Hurry-Up Syndrome Revisited
Past ASRS research has documented that the "hurry-up syndrome" ? any situation in which pilot performance is degraded by a perceived or actual need to rush the completion of cockpit tasks ? often results in downstream safety incidents. In practical terms, this means that omissions or oversights made during pre-flight and taxi-out often manifest themselves … Continue reading The Hurry-Up Syndrome Revisited
Gear-Up ‘Gotchas
A number of gear-up landings reported to ASRS by pilots of experimental aircraft involve a mechanical or electrical problem, coupled with the pilot?s failure to use a before-landing checklist: Landed with nosewheel retracted. Minor damage to aircraft. Nosewheel up/warning for throttle to idle was disabled due to electrical wiring problems. New aircraft (15 hours since … Continue reading Gear-Up ‘Gotchas
Nesting Urges
It's that spring-wonderful season of the year when pilots brush the cobwebs off their flying skills and airplanes and vault joyfully into the blue. Only (in a few unfortunate instances reported to ASRS) to suffer engine fires, or fuel starvation, because the nesting habits of small creatures went undetected during pre-flight. A Cessna pilot titled … Continue reading Nesting Urges
Oxygen Irregularities
Both pilots and controllers are educated to recognize the effects of oxygen deprivation and hypoxia. This training can be vital in safely resolving oxygen-related pilot incapacitation. Several ASRS reports illustrate: While at FL250 on an IFR flight plan, my oxygen line became disconnected from the regulator. I could hear the oxygen escaping and thought the … Continue reading Oxygen Irregularities
Mechanics of the Human Mind
A general aviation pilot rushed to make a VIFNO (Void If Not Off by) departure time for an IFR flight at night. Once in the clouds, he suffered a gyro failure and subsequent disorientation. He reported to ASRS that his prior instrument and simulator training were unequal to the "mechanics of the human mind" experienced … Continue reading Mechanics of the Human Mind
Where NOT To Do a Run-Up
A general aviation pilot recently supplied ASRS with a compelling tale of "wrong way" ground navigation: I had flown into [airport] for the first time two days prior [to incident]... The Ground controller gave me excellent progressive taxi instructions to the general aviation tiedown area. [On day of incident] I was cleared to taxi to … Continue reading Where NOT To Do a Run-Up
See and Avoid: Applies to Runway Ops, too
The following report, submitted to ASRS by a B-727 Captain discusses an incident in which established procedures still were not enough to avert a near-collision on the runway. Due to a mechanical problem, our flight [air carrier X] departed after the Tower closed for the night. We complied with our company?s "non-Tower" procedures found on … Continue reading See and Avoid: Applies to Runway Ops, too