In simple words- a NOTAM should not be active for more than 3 months, and should not be replaced more than once. So if you still find old NOTAMS then the procedure is not being followed and should be questioned.
FIXING NOTAMS
Category: Flight Safety
TURBULENCE IN SKY
Turbulence usually just causes a bumpy ride, but it varies widely in severity and can cause damage to the plane and injuries to the passengers and crew on board — not to mention serious fear and anxiety among flyers.
LEARN TO SAY NO
The recent helicopter crash in Iran which caused death of Iran’s President and Foreign Minister has once again raised lot of question on safety of helicopter operations. Among the escalating geo-politic tension, lot of stories are doing round, ranging from sabotage to weather to technical issues.
Passenger Behaviour During Evacuation
While air travel has been the most preferred and safest mode of travel for public for decades. Safe evacuation of all the passengers has further demonstrated the importance of crew procedures and training, together with leadership qualities, communication skills and coordination. The main idea of this article is to highlight few recurring issues that are cause of concern for flight crew.
Put the Delay on Me
There are essentially two types of pressure: actual pressure and self-imposed pressure. The first of course is real pressure, applied directly or indirectly, for the task to be completed in a given time. On the other hand, individuals or teams may feel self-imposed pressure to complete a task within a given time, even when it is not advisable or feasible.
Misconceptions about Standing Water on Runway
The presence of water on runway significantly affects aircraft safety on ground and runway friction. ICAO has developed Global Reporting Format (GRF) to globally harmonise methodology for assessing and reporting runway surface conditions. This helps in mitigating the risk of runway excursion.
Upgrading your Preflight and Inflight Briefing.
In aviation, as flight crew we have to make Go- No Go decision from mountain of information available to us. The goal is to use briefing process to discuss the situation with crew and avoid making a mistake.
Suicide – Murder in Air: Should air-travellers be worried?
Wall Street Journal citing US officials investigating the Eastern China B737-800 crash in March 22 suggests that someone in cockpit gave control inputs which sent the plane into steep dive crashing at remote hill and killing everyone on board. If confirmed by NTSB this would be the third major disaster attributed to pilot suicide- murder. This includes German Wings flight in 2015 that was flown into French hills by co-pilot and Mozambique Airlines flight in Nov 2013. Reoccurrence of such incidents has highlighted the worry of air travellers for the safety. Should they be worried or scared to step into the aircraft for their future travel.
What Pilots should know about GNSS signal jamming or spoofing..
Satellite Positioning Systems like GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Gallileo can be the target of various attacks from basic jamming to more sophisticated spoofing of signals or even hard kill of satellites. While Jamming makes the GNSS unusable , Spoofing is a sophisticated form of RF interference which makes the receiver believe it is at false location.
Welcoming Back, Air India!
This blog reviews the human factors implications of Air India’s acquisition by Tata’s on the operation of Air India, Air India Express, Vistara and Air Asia India and its potential impact on flight safety.