Hazard a Guess
Winter is coming! This hazard causes a decrease in lift and an increase in drag.
What is Icing?
Aircraft icing occurs when water droplets freeze on the aircraft, leading to various types of ice formation, including clear ice, rime ice, mixed ice, and frost. Even minor ice formations can potentially decrease lift by up to 30% and increase drag by 40%. Icing can block airflow in the engine, leading to power loss, and can make it difficult for pilots to control the aircraft.
The phases of flight with disproportionately high accident rates.
What are Takeoff and Landing?
Before every flight, this mandatory inspection is conducted by the pilot or maintenance engineer.
What is a Preflight Inspection or Walkaround?
Be positive! This report that focuses on preventing accidents before they happen.
What is a Proactive Report.
A proactive report involves identifying hazards that have not yet occurred or recognizing and reporting procedures that could impede safety.
This provides a structured approach to managing safety risks in our operation. It enables us to identify hazards, analyze and mitigate risks, continuously improve our safety performance.
What is SMS?
Steve Aoki and Lil' Jon hit this common aviation hazard in a 2011 song. It's caused by rapid changes in air pressure and altitude.
What is Turbulence?
In rotary flying, this maneuver is used in the event of a dual engine failure. It uses the airflow through the rotor blades to control descent.
What is Autorotation?
Calibration of this tool is essential to ensure fasteners are tightened to exact specifications.
What is a Torque Wrench?
A person sustains serious injury, the aircraft is damaged, or the aircraft is missing.
What is an Aviation Accident?
This independent agency expects that where an accident or reportable incident occurs involving an aircraft, the PIC, the operator, the owner, and any crew member of the aircraft shall report the accident to them as soon as possible, and by the quickest means of communication available.
Who is the TSB
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada's goal is to advance safety in air transportation in Canada.
This hazard refers to a situation where an aircraft, vehicle, or person is incorrectly on a runway, creating a risk of collision.
What is a Runway Incusion?
This condition is caused when a helicopter descends too quickly into its own downwash, causing the rotor blades to become less effective and leading to a significant loss of lift.
What is the Vortex Ring State (VRS)?
This acronym helps to assess mental and physical fitness before a flight.
What is the IMSAFE Checklist?
Illness: Check for any health issues that may impair flying.
Medication: Consider any medications that could affect performance.
Stress: Assess personal stress levels that might impact focus.
Alcohol: Ensure no alcohol consumption within the required time frame.
Fatigue: Evaluate your level of tiredness and rest.
Emotion: Reflect on emotional state and its potential impact on flying.
This is the Safety Risk Matrix formula.
What is Risk = Severity X Probability?
This acronym is a set of step-by-step instructions compiled by an organization to help workers carry out routine operations. They include essential protocols that ensure safety, consistency, and efficiency in flight operations.
What are SOPs?
Standard Operating Procedures, are detailed, written instructions that describe how to perform routine activities within an organization. They serve as a framework for pilots and crew members to follow, ensuring that tasks are executed consistently and safely.
This hazard refers to the presence of undesired elements or impurities (water, particulates or microbial growth) that can compromise engine or fuel system performance.
What is Fuel Contamination?
Fuel contamination is a significant hazard in aviation, posing serious risks to the performance and safety of aircraft. Contaminated fuel can lead to engine malfunctions, reduced efficiency, and potentially catastrophic failures.
If an aircraft's pitot-static system is blocked, it can cause errors in these two critical instruments.
What are the Airspeed Indicator and the Altimeter?
This rare and visually stunning occurrence shares it's name with a 1985 film starring Rob Lowe and Demi Moore. It is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a rod like object in an atmospheric electric field.
What is St. Elmo's Fire?
While not a hazard in itself, St Elmo's Fire is an indication of thunderstorm activity and may be a precursor to a lightning strike.
This is a concept in which individuals are not blamed for 'honest errors', but are held accountable for willful violations and gross negligence.
What is a Just Culture?
An employee following procedure that results in a normal error can be completely blameless. Disciplinary action is unlikely to prevent the unintended action from recurring and would not be fair to the employee.
Can we fix it? Yes we can! Under Subpart 73 of the Canadian Aviation Regulations, this certificate authorizes the scope of work that may be performed under each rating specified therein.
What is an AMO?
An Approved Maintenance Organization certificate authorizes the maintenance of specified aeronautical products or the provision of specified maintenance services.
What gorilla?? This human factor can lead to skipping steps when someone feels sure they already know the procedure.
What is Complacency?
Complacency or inattentional blindness has nothing to do with your ability to see. It has to do with your ability to pay attention to unexpected stimuli.
According to IATA this is the second most common type of fatal aviation accident. Watch out below!
What is CFIT?
Controlled Flight into Terrain most commonly occurs in the approach or landing phase of flight. Surprisingly, more than 75 percent of CFIT accidents in a typical year occur in daylight and more than half of those are in visual conditions. More than 30‐percent of pilots involved even hold an instrument rating.
This conceptual model of human factors that helps to clarify the location and cause of human error within an aviation environment. Also popular at the beach.
What is the SHELL Model?
The SHELL model is named after the initial letters of its components (Software, Hardware, Environment, Liveware) and places emphasis on the human being and human interfaces with other components of the aviation system. It adopts a perspective that suggests the human is rarely, if ever, the sole cause of an accident.
The name of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada's confidential incident reporting system.
What is SECURITAS?
Add one letter and you might be getting hungry. This 3 letter acronym refers to any object, particle or substance, alien to an aircraft or system which could potentially cause damage.
What is FOD?
Foreign Object Debris can cause damage in a number of ways, including: