You can imagine our deep sense of grief when occasionally we’d return to a city on our ground-school circuit and someone would say, “Did you hear about Bill?” “No,” we’d say, “what happened to Bill?” They would then explain the aircraft crash that had killed Bill. It happened all too often. We began to realize the things that were killing these learning pilots were things the FAA was not asking on the knowledge tests.
Why Pilots Must Demonstrate Risk Management
Key Takeaways:
- Pilot fatalities were often due to issues not covered by FAA knowledge tests, which prioritized tricky questions for score distribution over real-world risk management, creating an adversarial relationship with the aviation community.
- A collaborative effort, initiated in 2011 with an Aviation Rulemaking Committee, successfully transformed the relationship between the FAA and the aviation community from hostile to one of mutual respect.
- This collaboration led to significant reforms, most notably integrating comprehensive risk management into pilot certification standards (ACS) to address the primary cause of pilot fatalities: the lack of ability to identify and mitigate risks.
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