RESILIENCE, STARTLE & SURPRISE
Your thoughts are the enemy not a setback itself! Konstantinos Pechlivanos offers up some 13 tips on how to build your resilience and points out the importance of avoiding the thinking traps that can kidnap your self-belief.
Written by Konstantinos Pechlivanis
In this article Mizzi and McCarthy from Griffith university take a look at flight crew briefings and explain how to incorporate TEM and improve resilience.
Written by Daan
In the article below, details of an operational evaluation of a startle management method are shared. The method is similar to that described in the EASA/NLR report.
Written by Daan
This article from 2019 and published by Forbes, looks at the airline industry and discusses the value in not only studying what pilots do wrong, but also what they do right. The author, Kirsty Kiernan is a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. She teaches and conducts research in unmanned systems and aviation safety.
The industry knows a lot about what pilots do wrong, but not nearly enough about what pilots do right. How does the role of the human in the system build in resilience? ‘In aviation safety, it’s like we’ve been trying to learn about marriage by only studying divorce.’
Written by K-HUB
Capt Owen Sims talks about startle and suprise in upset recovery in this video.
Written by Daan
One of the first research efforts into startle and surprise management. The attached report is written by the Dutch NLR on the initiative of EASA.
Written by Daan
Annemarie Landman’s 2019 work on startle and surprise in the cockpit established her as a leading theorist in the field and has helped to forge applied techniques to manage startle effect in the cockpit. The full paper is available for free download through the TNO repository. Follow the link. After several recent flight safety events, […]
Written by Alex P
