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Old 8th March 2007 | 18:02
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A37575 “Would that not get through to the cowboys who see the hot and high approach as a challenge and not a deadly risk?“
This activity alone might help, but there also is a requirement for education to convince pilots of the need for their participation. A lack of knowledge or understanding has contributed to several recent worldwide accidents.
The FSF ALAR Tool Kit provides background information, checklists, and some cartoon posters, although these are culturally biased towards N America.
Perhaps a refresh of this material is required, republished in local languages. Some of this has been done, see ALAR additional resources, with Spanish and Russian versions available.The conditions for, and the background to, a stabilized approach are in the ALAR Briefing Note 7.1

Similarly, language updates would be useful for briefings such as Managing Threats and Errors during Approach and Landing. This already uses a mixed text and graphic format that might go some way to meeting your request.

The main problem is to convince pilots that ‘it’ can happen to them, but all of us (humans, pilots) judge risks poorly. Thus the poster has to convince pilots of the risk; those tangible items that we deal with each day:- wet runway, tailwind, high speed.
Several of these issues are in the paper When a Runway is Not Long Enough to Land On.

Quotes:
1. The overrun accident risk was 55 times greater when the touchdown position was long.
2. The overrun accident risk increases by a factor of 10 when the landing was conducted on a wet or flooded runway, and by a factor of 14 when the runway was covered with snow, ice or slush.
3. In 15% of the 400 landing overrun accidents that were analyzed, there was late, or no, application of the available stopping devices.
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