The Air Transportation Oversight System (ATOS) is the Federal Aviation Administration’s primary tool for overseeing the nation’s airlines. The fundamental principle of ATOS is that air carriers must have properly designed systems to eliminate or lessen risks before they result in accidents or incidents.
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CMR Definition – What is a CMR? – A CMR is a required periodic task, established during the design certification of the airplane as an operating limitation of the type certificate.
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Aviation Definitions related to to the “Runway Overrun Event” on landing by American Airlines Flight 331 A/C N977AN, a Boeing 737-800 aircraft at Kingston, Jamaica’s Norman Manley International Airport – KIN. Included is a discusion about the possible casues and Human Factors that may be related to the incident.
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Dirty Dozen: The twelve most common Aviation Maintenance-related, Human Factors causes of errors.
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Standard Operating Procedure – SOPs are universally recognized as basic to safe aviation operations. Effective crew coordination and crew performance, two central concepts of crew resource management
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Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (LBA) is the German equivalent to the Federal Aviation Administration. Additional German Aviation links are listed here
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Fail-passive automatic landing system are designed so that in the event of a failure there is no significant deviation of aircraft trim, flight path or
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A General Visual (Surveillance) Inspection (GVI) is a type of visual examination of an interior or exterior area, installation or assembly to detect obvious damage, failure or irregularity of an Aircraft or component
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For transport category airplanes, a 16g seat is one that meets the 9g requirements of Sec. 25.561 and the dynamic requirements of Sec. 25.562.
A 16g seat is tested in a manner that simulates the loads that could be expected in an impact-survivable accident. Two separate dynamic tests are conducted to simulate two different accident scenarios: [...]
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FOD is any object that does not belong in or near airplanes and as a result, can injure airport or airline personnel and damage airplanes. Airports, airlines and airport tenants can reduce this cost by taking steps to prevent airport FOD. FOD includes a wide range of material, including loose hardware, pavement fragments, catering supplies, [...]
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