Dirty Dozen: The twelve most common Aviation Maintenance-related, Human Factors causes of errors.
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Situational awareness. Pilot knowledge of where the aircraft is in regard to location, air traffic control, weather, regulations, aircraft status, and other factors that may affect flight.
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Single-pilot resource management (SRM). The ability for a pilot to manage all resources effectively to ensure the outcome of the flight is successful.
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Poor judgment chain. A series of mistakes that may lead to an accident or incident. Two basic principles generally associated with the creation of a poor judgment chain are: (1) one bad decision often leads to another; and (2) as a string of bad decisions grows, it reduces the number of subsequent alternatives for continued [...]
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Optical illusion. A misleading visual image. For the purpose of this handbook, the term refers to the brain s misinterpretation of features on the ground associated with landing, which causes a pilot to misread the spatial relationships between the aircraft and the runway.
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Attitude Management – The ability to recognize hazardous attitudes in oneself and the willingness to modify them as necessary through the application of an appropriate antidote thought.
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Fail-Safe Design Concept: Fundamental to the notion of safety-critical systems in certification is the fail-safe design concept, which “considers the effects of failures and combinations of failures in defining a safe design.” The concept has a different meaning for structures than for systems: fail-safe for structures is concerned with residual strength after sustaining damage; fail-safe for systems [...]
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Accident: An accident is often caused by a variety of contributing factors that interfere with good judgment and may cause inadvertent errors (events).. This permits a series of events to develop eventually resulting in damage to people or property. In every accident there are a series of events (errors) that link together to form a [...]
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Norms: One of the “Dirty Dozen” of Aviation Human Factor related traps
(1) A side effect of working in teams is the use of norms to guide a person’s behavior. For example, a maintenance team may meet regularly before and after a shift is over or even socially, during days off. If this meeting is not [...]
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Probability of Occurrence Classifications: May be expressed in qualitative terms like Extremely Improbable, Extremely Remote, Remote, Reasonably Probable or Frequent
Probability of
Occurrence
classification
Extremely improbable
Extremely
remote
Remote
Reasonably probable
Frequent
Qualitative definition
Should virtually never occur in the whole fleet life.
Unlikely to occur [...]
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