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"Pilot Error" Myth
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This is probably not the right forum to pursue this, however,
despite your ongoing plea, modern Human Factors Theory and Practice has exploded the myth of 'pilot error'.
It has been an enduring term but academic studies now refer to the more correct term 'human error'.
As someone rightly remarked earlier, we don't have 'doctor error' for a medical mistake or 'managing director error' for a business misjudgment or 'police error' for a false arrest etc. etc.
As Woomera has tried to point out, most if not all accidents/incidents are the result of systemic error within the organisation. The pilot/pilots are but a cog within the operation. This of course, is not to say pilots aren't capable of human error.
Accident investigation now focuses not just on what happened but on all the factors as to why it happened and may go well beyond the pilots, crew and aircraft.
I suggest like Transition Layer did that you might get a copy of the book "Human Factors in Flight" by Captain Frank H Hawkins, the prescribed text for Aviation Psychology subject within the Aviation Degree at University of Western Sydney.
There is a specific chapter entitled "Human Error".
This is probably not the right forum to pursue this, however,
despite your ongoing plea, modern Human Factors Theory and Practice has exploded the myth of 'pilot error'.
It has been an enduring term but academic studies now refer to the more correct term 'human error'.
As someone rightly remarked earlier, we don't have 'doctor error' for a medical mistake or 'managing director error' for a business misjudgment or 'police error' for a false arrest etc. etc.
As Woomera has tried to point out, most if not all accidents/incidents are the result of systemic error within the organisation. The pilot/pilots are but a cog within the operation. This of course, is not to say pilots aren't capable of human error.
Accident investigation now focuses not just on what happened but on all the factors as to why it happened and may go well beyond the pilots, crew and aircraft.
I suggest like Transition Layer did that you might get a copy of the book "Human Factors in Flight" by Captain Frank H Hawkins, the prescribed text for Aviation Psychology subject within the Aviation Degree at University of Western Sydney.
There is a specific chapter entitled "Human Error".
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I can't believe the general thrust of this thread. Pilots as a group would be as opposed to PC thinking as any other group going around, yet when the term "pilot error" is mentioned people here are blindly flopping around using "human error" etc as a replacement.
People, be they pilots, controllers, briefing officers, met staff, whatever, make mistakes. Trying to shift the blame by using PC criteria defeats the purpose, surely?
People, be they pilots, controllers, briefing officers, met staff, whatever, make mistakes. Trying to shift the blame by using PC criteria defeats the purpose, surely?
