Aviation safety specialist like the NTSB’s Robert Sumwalt and NASA scientist Key Dismukes have warned that pilots should never drop their guard as they not only need to keep an eye on their instruments, but also their co-pilots to keep lethal errors from occurring, when the plane is most susceptible.
Back in the year 2003, a major win was achieved when citing a 1994 NTSB study, claimed 84 percent of accidents that might have been barred if the crew caught errors and /or questioned their superiors if they convinced the FAA to officially change the on-duty titles of pilots, so both individuals would always have
active accountability.
They exclaimed themselves saying that if Nobody is flying the plane Mentally then no one is. If we look into 10 years ahead of us the experts won’t be satisfied with their progress. Accidents like the crash of Asiana 214 is the one where crew members didn’t seem to be aware of the aircraft’s speed has resulted the FAA to require pilots to actually who would be trained how to monitor their often confusing aircraft, and to practice that talent regularly.
The idea has been brought up twice with the aviation authority by them, but in the nonattendance of movement, they’ve formed a working group of their own named as The Active Pilot Monitoring Workshop. It is claimed to use the weight of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) which is a union representing 59,000 US and Canadian pilots, to drive its message home.
The group, with the help of the Training Group, ALPA’s Human Factors, and a huge list of participants including many major US airlines, campaigns to issue a report this December that would hopefully convince the entire industry about a little more monitoring, so that the future accidents can be avoided. Helena Reidemar, who is the ALPA director of human factors and co-leads the working group claimed that, they’ve talked about supervising in past, but they’ve never taken a widespread look as this project.
The idea of the group was presented at this year’s Air Safety Forum. If one has got an hour and a half to spare, it’s all right to see all on video.