Pel Air Victoria under investigation
Bright green lights suggest all is well. The bleeds off lights should be amber, but from memory Beech did it wrong, in keeping with the rest of that cluttered cockpit. It's as if they set out to trap the unwary. That includes yours truly, who when flying several types, got sucked in by B200 green bleed lights more than once (fortunately picked up after takeoff).
Also, waiting until the line up phase to select something so vital as pressurization is another trap. The B200 factory checklist is truly stone age. Modern thinking is to get critical stuff done before moving, leaving pilots free to concentrate on the outside world as they taxy.
Also, waiting until the line up phase to select something so vital as pressurization is another trap. The B200 factory checklist is truly stone age. Modern thinking is to get critical stuff done before moving, leaving pilots free to concentrate on the outside world as they taxy.
My personal discipline in regard to this particular matter was that apart from the Med Bus On (specific to our aeromed aircraft) annunciator, there should be no lights down there before take off. If there was, then I’d missed something.
Any time that I had reversed a switch after a completed checklist, I scrolled the electronic checklist back to the start of that phase and checked the necessary checklist had been completed on lineup.
Yes Don, you are so right. The adult leaves the room and the pea shooters come our, finger paint gets chucked around, the girls light up............. Like when you left the old Plank mate, the place fell apart. The PLTOFFs all went stupid...aaah, flamin 'eck, whaddayado??
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Re the colour of annunciator lights issue, wearing my CVDPA director's hat I can't resist pointing out the exquisite irony of colour usage that confuses. Identifying the meaning of lights that happen to be coloured produces the safety outcome, not identifying the colour. Perhaps pilots with some kinds of colour vision deficiency wouldn't be so confused?
In any event, any aviation-related context in which important information is conveyed by colour alone is the product of very bad design, plain and simple.
(And I could be wrong, but I thought all the studies of hypoxia - or maybe it was CO poisoning or both - showed that audible alarms were more likely to be acted upon?)
In any event, any aviation-related context in which important information is conveyed by colour alone is the product of very bad design, plain and simple.
(And I could be wrong, but I thought all the studies of hypoxia - or maybe it was CO poisoning or both - showed that audible alarms were more likely to be acted upon?)
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Multiple sources say it has become difficult to find and retain pilots because of the attraction of better air ambulance pay rates interstate and the lure of commercial work.
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Worth pointing out this is commercial work. It is a government contract operated for profit by Pel Air to provide a service. So if they aren’t paying enough to retain qualified staff they need to pay more money. They should not now be trying to make out like they’re a charity because they don’t won’t to pay market salary.
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Crop duster down near Bourke - Pilot deceased.
It is always heartbreaking to hear about accidents in the aviation industry, especially when they result in the loss of a pilot's life. The recent incident involving a crop duster down near Bourke is a stark reminder of the risks that pilots face every time they take to the skies.
