1.
Prevent loss of control in flight
2.
Fatigue relayed accident
3.
Medical fitness
4.
Reducing distractions
5.
Cockpit image recorder
According to my
research, I have came out with the ranking above, I ranked prevent loss of
control in flight at the top is because this is the reason that is directly
resulting in fatal accident, however other reasons only indirectly causes fatal
accident. If the pilot could not prevent the plane from stall or recover stall
condition, he/she would not able to react correctly and putting everyone’s life
in danger. According to my reading, this is the reason causes most fatal in an
accident, pilot suppose to have ability to recover from stall, if they could
not recover the plane in a stall condition then they should receive more
training. (Bellamy III , 2016)
I ranked fatigue at the second place, because there
are several fatal accident are directly caused by fatigue and fatigue will
affect the judge and decision making process of an pilot during emergency
situation. And I believe that fatigue is still happens within aviation
industry, epically with Cargo industry and smaller operator which on call
policies which give pilot very limited time to prepare before they notice that
they have a trip.
I ranked medical fitness at 3rd place because
medical fitness became an important issue after German wing accident, because
medical fitness is not measuring both physically and mentally. And it is very
difficult for pilot to self-reporting their mental health condition.
I ranked reducing distraction as 4th
because I do think most companies have strict policy regarding using personal
electronic device during flight, and most of the company’s device for example
ipads could be very helpful to pilots if they using it correctly. And I do
believe most of the professional pilot will have ability to judge when could be
the great time to use their personal devices.
I ranked cockpit image recorder at last is because
there are a lot of argument regarding if it is appropriate to put image
recorder in the cockpit. I do think it is not suppose to belong to the list.
There is a lot of argument about the image recorder, firstly the privacy
issues, pilots claim that the cameras in the cockpit invade their privacy and
there are possibility of miss-using and leak to the public. Also, some pilots
believe that adding a camera will create additional stress and affect their
decision making process, they feel like there are people watching them while
they are making every decisions. Also they feel like the purpose I overlapping
with current cockpit voice and flight data recorder which can provide same
information that can provided by the image recorder.( Davis, 2014)
Dec 11, 2013 Asiana Airlines flight OZ214 crashed in San Francisco airport,
the investigation shows that both of the pilots are significantly lack of
experience of operating the 777 aircraft manually, most of their flight hours
are operating the plane by auto pilot. I do think NTSB should start making
rules for Operators to make sure their pilots are fully trained on how to
manually land a plane to prevent from similar accident happening as auto pilot
are taking over most part of the flight. (Martinez, 2014)
I do think FAA will be taking action on fatigue because it is a very
serious problem, which caused a lot of accident, and there are still a lot of
violation and companies with bad scheduling policies especially in cargo
industry. However fatigue is not only happening within pilots. Fatigue of
controller, maintenance technician might also cause accident. FAA should
definitely start taking actions to prevent operating under fatigue.
Bellamy, W.,
III. (2016, January 14). NTSB's 5 Most Wanted Aviation Safety Improvements in 2016
retrieved from:
http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/commercial/NTSBs-5-Most-Wanted-Aviation-Safety-Improvements-in-2016_86948.html#.Vwr8cRIrImJ
Davies, A. (n.d.). Why pilots dislike being on cockpit cam. Retrieved
from http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/11/mh370-cockpit-camera
Martinez, M. (n.d.). Asiana Flight 214 Crash Anniversary. Retrieved 2016,
from http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/06/us/california-asiana-plane-crash-anniversary/
When it comes to distractions in the cockpit, I think you put a lot of trust in the pilots. Like you said are the pilots using there tablets for the right reasons, we might never know unless they are monitored by the company. But who's not to say they don't use their personal devices, and if both pilots want to use them they are not going to tell on themselves and therefore they are flying distracted. Not all pilots will act this way, so like you said we have to hope the pilots act professionally.
回复删除I like your list a lot. If I had to change mine around it would go in this order. I have medical fitness as a listed as a top priority because of the great danger it leaves for everyone.
回复删除