SM4 Safety Articles & Resources
A Step-by-Step Guide to Prevent Skills Atrophy
Congratulations, you’ve finally earned every certificate you’ve ever wanted. Well done! Unfortunately, you have already begun to experience “skills atrophy”, affecting all that you have just worked so hard to…
Protecting Your Data While in Flight
Many think their data can’t be hacked—until it is. The Problem: Data theft or disruption of network systems is costing companies money, downtime, and often their reputations. Flight departments are…
The Question Game
There is a gap in our market…we see it and you see it. It’s 3 a.m. A company aircraft carrying the CEO just diverted to an airport 45 miles away…
Upset Training Without Getting Sick!
Both the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recognize on-aircraft Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT) as the best method to combat the loss of…
You Can’t Handle the Truth!
Lt Kaffee: “I want the truth!” Col Jessep: “You can’t handle the truth!” That’s the famous interchange from the movie “A Few Good Men” when the characters played by Jack…
Training to “Startle”
The “Startle” response, common to all mammals, reptiles, fish, and humans – including pilots of any and every skill or experience level, is an innate and involuntary reaction to sudden…
Training Investments and Protecting Assets
On-aircraft Upset Prevention & Recovery Training (UPRT) is being presented across the industry as a supplement to recurrent academic and simulator training.
Achieving Simplicity in a Complex World of Safety
Effective leaders deliver simplicity in response to complexity. (Harter, 2006, p. 77) Although anyone can be a leader in any given context (expert, coach, etc.), the head of the organization…
Slow Onset Hypoxia Represents the Highest Risk of Fatality
The current training standards for rapid or explosive cabin depressurization have served the commercial aviation industry well. Over the last 15 years there have been numerous high altitude rapid decompression…
