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Forum: Rotorheads
23rd Mar 2016, 07:39
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

We can be our own worst enemies....

.... when we train and rehearse scenarios that we use on a frequent basis. The fourth phase in the classic four-stage learning model (see below) leaves us exposed to the vagaries of 'unconscious...
Forum: Rotorheads
26th Nov 2013, 17:40
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

Shawn

Many years ago I was asked to audit a company that had suffered a fatal CFIT by the management of that company. What I was able to establish was that the 6-8 pilots regularly employed had all...
Forum: Rotorheads
16th Nov 2013, 20:29
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

Pilot Error = the end...

...I don't think so. At least I hope not, I hope that's not the end of our interest in this puzzling event. Whatever we think of TC's assertions it may in the end turn out to be - Pilot Error = the...
Forum: Rotorheads
14th Nov 2013, 14:51
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

Albatross

If you haven't read 'The Naked Pilot' then please do. You may think differently afterwards.

Don't forget that whilst sitting there watching 'George' they had expectations about how it would work....
Forum: Rotorheads
14th Nov 2013, 12:52
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

xlsky et al

I gave a presentation at Shell in 2012 and at RAeS in London last May at which I pointed out that whilst I can never claim to be an expert on the global pilot population my colleagues at the AWTA and...
Forum: Rotorheads
14th Nov 2013, 09:34
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

Industry Insider

When a company embarks on a new fleet acquisition programme it should follow the pathway I described and this should apply for every change in an organisation, even if perceived as an improvement, it...
Forum: Rotorheads
13th Nov 2013, 23:38
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

TC

I think your last line would have had David Beaty (the Naked Pilot) turning in his grave.... and Emil Zotov (The Zotov Error Map) chortling in his borsch.

The guy who created the Heindrich Pyramid...
Forum: Rotorheads
12th Nov 2013, 08:32
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

The dilemma....

I sat there today admiring the shear technical marvel that our simulator represents. Why am I being so negative about them when they truly are magnificent pieces of technology.

Then I thought of...
Forum: Rotorheads
10th Nov 2013, 02:18
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

DB & SAS

I suspect that the big difference between the military and civil sims is that the military focus on the task whereas we focus on the licensing process. Compliance overtakes competence as the priority...
Forum: Rotorheads
10th Nov 2013, 00:03
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

HC

I can go along with that no problem. Your observation that the candidates for a TR course can already fly seems to have passed the regulators by. When are they going to get it! You give a guy a...
Forum: Rotorheads
9th Nov 2013, 00:14
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

DOn't forget....

...that when the sims are working they are the most fantastic teaching tool and the future for them is brighter than it's ever been. We just need them to have fidelity and reliability and replicate...
Forum: Rotorheads
8th Nov 2013, 22:19
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

SAS and II

SAS

Of course you are right, a motionless FTD is indeed a very good IF training device. The motion system is just the icing on the cake. I could probably teach 90% of the VFR stuff on a motionless...
Forum: Rotorheads
8th Nov 2013, 20:29
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

Add one more thing to my list....

There should be a certification class called 'Complex Types'. This will introduce a rule that prohibits the use of the real aircraft for training where the rehearsal of any system failure or...
Forum: Rotorheads
8th Nov 2013, 19:35
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

SFT et al

So what we are saying is:

1. Include the sim in the package for a new type from day 1.
2. Tie in all component suppliers to the same programme at the initial contract phase.
3. Production of an...
Forum: Rotorheads
8th Nov 2013, 11:27
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

SAS

Don't have a problem with any of that but we have unfortunately reached a point if helicopter development where the conventional 'cheap is best' solution no longer works.

It's very sad because I...
Forum: Rotorheads
8th Nov 2013, 09:12
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

DB

I know that I am part of the problem - I keep soldiering on, I keep complaining but I just keep soldiering on. We all know that the alternative to making do is to refuse to do anything and then where...
Forum: Rotorheads
8th Nov 2013, 04:16
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

DB

I think it's possible that the problem exists higher up the CAA rather than with the FOIs who generally have a lot of experience and tend to agree with our philosophies. It's the level at which...
Forum: Rotorheads
8th Nov 2013, 00:40
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

SAS

What I am in effect saying is that when you decide what is required by way of training you can't then turn your back on it and accept something a great deal less. Level D or acceptable alternatives...
Forum: Rotorheads
7th Nov 2013, 22:28
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

The OEM's role

Such is the complexity of the new generation of helicopters that for all but the largest company the provision of a 'post TR course' upgrade is impossible. There are also operational aspects of the...
Forum: Rotorheads
7th Nov 2013, 19:19
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

Shy T

Yes - that's the one the quote came from. Of course hindsight is a wonderful thing but I look back and see that as the day the alarm bells were rung.,, and were not answered.

When a helicopter is...
Forum: Rotorheads
7th Nov 2013, 13:24
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

Joking aside...

... I think I can say without fear of contradiction that our AAIB is, and deserves to be, a highly respected organisation around the globe but I am hoping that in this instance they will recognise...
Forum: Rotorheads
7th Nov 2013, 11:01
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

HC

Damn I forgot about the free lunches, not going to get one myself now, that's for sure.

G

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Forum: Rotorheads
7th Nov 2013, 10:17
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

The Missing Page???

I must apologise to my colleagues for I need some help to find the missing page in the AAIB report on the Shetland 332L2 accident.

I got the bit about VRS but couldn't for the life of me find the...
Forum: Rotorheads
5th Nov 2013, 15:38
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

The lawyer thing.....

Following fatal accident in which he was the pilot a colleague overheard his boss announce that "we are off to see the lawyers and have a chat with the barrister." He walked out to the car with him...
Forum: Rotorheads
30th Oct 2013, 01:50
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

xlsky

Be careful. Try reading the Noggie MORs before you spout forth. If, of course, you are allowed to see them!!!

A miss maybe a good as a mile on any other world but ours.

G.
Forum: Rotorheads
29th Oct 2013, 12:54
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

Jm Lovell

As I said at the bottom of the page. Had that crew and the many other crews who have been victims of their own ignorance, it would have helped them no end if they had been taught how to work their AP...
Forum: Rotorheads
27th Oct 2013, 16:15
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

Jim Lovell's contribution

This just appeared on the online version of the Daily Telegraph




Apollo 13 should be a lasting reminder to astronauts and airline pilots of the dangers of relying on automated systems, the...
Forum: Rotorheads
27th Oct 2013, 15:52
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

Mars et al

It all begins at the beginning - the TR course. All license related courses are designed around the LST. The traditional TR course focusses on how to fly the helicopter, handling exercises take...
Forum: Rotorheads
7th Sep 2013, 20:43
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

26,500

Amen

G.
Forum: Rotorheads
7th Sep 2013, 20:14
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

HC

A very astute observation. There is a very appropriate saying that applies to people like me, appointed to teach on the 139 when there were virtually no type rated drivers in the world.

'In the...
Forum: Rotorheads
7th Sep 2013, 19:05
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

Third party training

This just has to be one of those ideas that only a bean counter can conjure up. One of the aspect of training that sets the TR taught by a third party instructor apart from one carried out in house...
Forum: Rotorheads
31st Aug 2013, 05:34
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

Brian

James Reason - Yes he certainly expounded on that subject but I don't recall him presenting it in graphical format. If I was able to draw one for you you would immediately see how powerful the ZEM is...
Forum: Rotorheads
31st Aug 2013, 00:57
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

Zotov Error Maps

Does anyone know if the AAIB, or any other similar organisation, makes use of the investigation tool known as the 'Zotov Error Map'?

The ZEM plots the contributions made by other (and all,...
Forum: Rotorheads
30th Aug 2013, 15:24
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

Instrument Training

My overall impression is that most TRI's have not had the benefit of a course that helps them to help the candidate learn to instrument fly properly and to a certain extent we lack the tools to do...
Forum: Rotorheads
30th Aug 2013, 00:02
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,679
Posted By Geoffersincornwall

The Thompson Airline research

Thompsons experienced a couple of serious incidents during 'go arounds' and decided to investigate further. They found that by using 'eye-tracking' technology during their sim training and testing...
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