Risk
Management
Accident
Investigation
The FAA
Aviation and Weather
100

This model is a systematic approach to managing and measuring risk.

What is RAID?

100

This independent government agency is responsible for investigating accidents within civil aviation, railroad, transit, highway, marine, and pipeline industries.

What is the National Transportation Safety Board?

100

This agency is responsible for the safety of civil aviation.

What is the Federal Aviation Administration?

100

This is the term used to describe foggy or stormy weather conditions.

What are Instrument Meteorological Conditions?

200

In addition to determining the best course of action for a given situation, this describes Risk Management.

What is a systematic way of dealing with hazards?

200

This team is assembled in the beginning stages of an investigation and are the first one the scene of an accident.

What is the Go-Team?

200

This career within the FAA is responsible for monitoring and directing the movement of aircraft on the ground and in the air. 

What is Air Traffic Control?

200

This is the term used to describe clear conditions, or not flying in the clouds.

What are Visual Meteorological Conditions?

300

A supervisor does this by holding monthly safety meetings with the employees.

What is promotes a culture of safety?

300

This NTSB Go-Team Specialty is focused on pilot fatigue, illness or human factors.

What is Human Performance?

300

This career within the FAA is responsible for the design of air traffic control systems, testing and certifying new aircraft, testing new fuels, and designing airports.

What are engineers?
300

This is a special endorsement pilots must have before they can fly in clouds or IMC.

What is Instrument Rating?

400

One's personal judgement that they make about the characteristics and severity of a risk.

What is subjective?

400

The NTSB Accident includes this finding at the conclusion of every report, and uses this to make recommendations to the FAA to prevent similar accidents in the future.

What is Probable Cause?

400

This career within the FAA is responsible for administering, investigating and enforcing safety regulations and standards.

What are Safety Inspectors?

400

These weather reports are used primarily during the preflight and planning phase of a flight.

What are Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts (TAFs)?

500

These are elements of a safety management system.

What are 

  1. Hazard identification?
  2. Employee involvement?
  3. Safety training?
500

The NTSB is an independent agency in order to prevent this.

What is a subjective and biased approach?

500

This FAA Career is responsible for specializing in areas like navigation aids, communications, radar, and
automation.

What are technicians?

500

This is one element of a TAF report.

What is the...

Type of report?

Station identifier?

Forecast meteorological conditions?