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Acknowledge Your Attitudes

Recognizing the hazardous attitudes we all have is the challenge, and there’s an FAA Advisory Circular for that. 

The scene here occurred at the Manassas Regional Airport/Harry P. Davis Field, KHEF, in 2006. Outcomes like this only happen when the taxiing pilot is distracted. It’s possible they were in a hurry, and nothing bad could happen because they were invulnerable, right?
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Key Takeaways:

  • Pilots rely extensively on memorization techniques, including acronyms and mnemonics, to master the vast amount of technical and procedural information required for aviation.
  • The author introduces a new mnemonic, "Mr. Aii" (Macho, Resignation, Anti-Authority, Impulsivity, Invulnerability), to help pilots remember the FAA's five hazardous attitudes that compromise safety.
  • Beyond technical knowledge, personal attitudes are critical for flight safety, and pilots are encouraged to use self-assessment tools, such as those in FAA Advisory Circular 60-22, to identify and counteract hazardous attitudes.
  • Proactive self-analysis of one's attitudes is essential for pilots to prevent incidents and accidents, learning from others' mistakes rather than having to learn from their own.
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We pilots use all kinds of acronyms to remember stuff, because, like doctors and nurses, we have to memorize scads of information (SOI) and operate on people (OOP), sometimes removing their stomach contents for display all over the cockpit when we forgot to bring a bag. 

We also use mnemonics or phrases, like, “Mary had a little lamb, her fleece was white as snow, and if the VASI’s red o’er red, I’m too blanking low.” Or, “High to low, look out below,” which means to not dork up your altimeter setting and remember to clear the area below the aircraft when dropping stuff.

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