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Safety Standdown

“Frightened human beings will only do what they’re trained to. They don’t rise to the occasion; they sink to the level of their training.” - United States Marines Lt. Col. Dave Grossman iStock/Jevgenij Kulikov
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Key Takeaways:

  • Bombardier's Safety Standdown is a 23-year-old, highly attended annual event that educates aviation professionals to exceed minimum regulatory safety standards through continuous learning and proactive prevention.
  • The Standdown emphasizes critical human factors, addressing issues like complacency and the importance of personal commitment to higher performance standards, as advocated by experts like Dr. Tony Kern.
  • Key topics include mastering advanced cockpit automation and developing the skills necessary to interpret and react to complex situations such as ambiguous cockpit incidents (ACI), where conflicting instrument data requires superior airmanship.
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Despite an industry inhabited with thousands of gigantic egos, most aviation folk will probably admit, some secretly, that they wish they had a mentor, a guide to prevent them from falling into any of the thousands of professional pits waiting for the unsuspecting or poorly educated. Who wouldn’t like advice from someone who has been there before and knows the answers to important questions such as the best initial education, job-search tips or even how to hang on to the position they already have? Imagine too learning just how to safely move an airplane and its cargo of passengers from engine start to shutdown?

Rob Mark

Rob Mark is an award-winning journalist, business jet pilot, flight instructor, and blogger.

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