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Civilair put out a media release in February which is the one that has been quoted this last week on various media outlets.
Also AFAP have a lengthy news item on the topic which I linked on a previous post.
Thanks, AFAP link was an interesting read.
28 February and using any calendar you'd like to nominate, Gregorian, Julian, or Hijri, its 130 days.
Perhaps Civil Air have been somewhat captured by all this, and its become the new normal. Perhaps the membership are seeing it each and every day, and the ATCs and support staff just get on with it and deal with it. Plug the holes and hopefully handover to an incoming shift.
This thread has highlighted the extent of TIBA, and the euphemism of Operational Restrictions (critical staffing shortage).
From Wikipedia
Normalization of deviance, according to American sociologist Diane Vaughan, is the process in which deviance from correct or proper behavior or rule becomes culturally normalized.
Vaughan defines the process where a clearly unsafe practice becomes considered normal if it does not immediately cause a catastrophe: "a long incubation period [before a final disaster] with early warning signs that were either misinterpreted, ignored or missed completely".
The original example cited by Vaughan is the events leading to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, but the concept has also been applied to aviation safety, clinical practice in medicine, and the public's deviance from health measures aimed to stop the COVID-19 pandemic.
Normalization of deviance can exist in conjunction with corporate omertà where deviation from rules is held up by a code of silence surrounding the deviations or an unspoken agreement on rhetoric within a group of executives. One of the reasons Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed was normalization of deviance based on a criticism of corporate omerta with a "culture of silence".
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