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Garmin announces updates to FltPlan SMS Garmin Press Release | June 9, 2021
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Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd., has announced new updates to the FltPlan safety management system (SMS) that include enhancements to the risk/hazard reports allowing flight crews and ground personnel to more easily report items that added risk to their flight operations. The modernized user interface provides a simple step-by-step process to collect essential information and enables safety managers with a structured means of safety risk management reporting and decision making. The more in-depth reporting structure allows flight departments to further improve their safety culture initiatives.
Multi-Crew Pilot Upset Training Intervention Attacks COVID-19 Proficiency Impacts
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In response to COVID-19’s impact on the activity level of professional pilots operating in the multi-crew environment, APS has announced a powerful solution to reinvigorate manual handling proficiency and flight envelope awareness, and to bolster upset training skills to optimum levels. This frontline intervention is founded on APS’s industry-leading Upset Prevention and Recovery (UPRT) program augmented with a dedicated simulator-based CRM-UPRT, a self-paced online CRM course specific to challenges faced by crews in today’s operating environment, and APS’s all-new Virtual Reality UPRT. The Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) indicates a substantial increase in manual handling-related incidents since March 2020, suggesting improved manual handling proficiency is essential to safe flight operations.
Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN • Published 4th February 2021
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(CNN) The steepest downturn in modern aviation history means plenty of airline pilots are spending weeks or months of the coronavirus pandemic idling at home.
When they do return to the cockpit, a few are admitting that they re out of practice, and knocking off the rust is proving harder than anticipated. This was my first flight in nearly 3 months, one pilot wrote in a June report explaining why he or she neglected to turn on the critical anti-icing system. I placed too much confidence in assuming that it would all come back to me as second nature.
Safety Reports Take On COVID-19 Flavor
The Aviation Safety Reporting System has been inundated with hundreds of reports from pilots, flight attendants and support personnel on flight safety issues directly related to COVID-19. NASA runs the program as a consequence-free method for aviation personnel to describe safety miscues that didn’t result in incidents. Acting on a request, NASA culled out all the COVID-19-related incidents it could identify and it tallied 841. Among the most common topics (aside from passengers refusing to wear masks) are errors made by rusty pilots. Pilots have claimed their lack of recency has been to blame for everything from missed clearances to having to make three tries for a gusty crosswind landing. “Air Carrier flight crew reported flying an unstabilized approach,” says one report synopsis. “First Officer was the Pilot Flying and had not flown in 30 days.”