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Interaction of Aeronautical Decision-Making and Organizational Safety-II in the Context of Airline Transport Pilot Training

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This paper discusses safety issues related to the accident involving a Colgan Air, Inc., Bombardier DHC-8-400, N200WQ, operating as Continental Connection flight 3407 with focus on strategies to prevent flight crew monitoring failures. The issue is to foster the proper training of pilots for better decision making aligned with the organization’s safety philosophy as safety capacity. The primary objective of this research is to understand further the synergetic interaction between Aeronautical Decision-Making skills and organizational Safety-II. Although retributive justice has long been accepted in the aviation industry, its effectiveness is refutable. Procedures are static tools incapable of sustaining Safety. Mere improvement in compliance creates a bureaucratic work environment permissible to hold workers against regulations. Applied New Safety concepts and restorative justice are discussed. Whilst safety capacity is detached from work as imagined, the active interaction between people and the rules is at focus. The Colgan Air flight 3407 is analyzed concerning flight crew training. Recommendations derived from the investigator are scrutinized in cross-reference with the Civil Aviation Regulator's outputs in Europe and the United States. A systemic deficiency in civilian pilot training is exposed. The research method is bibliographic and qualitative. As a result, the imminent need to subside cadets with a formal learning structure to enhance their capacity to analyze, create and evaluate outside forecasted protocols in complex, high-risk environments are discussed. Finally, these dynamics are revised at their inter-reliability as safety capacity.

Published in Education Journal (Volume 11, Issue 1)

This article belongs to the Special Issue Competency-based Training in Aviation Personnel Training Programs: A New Concept of Training Standards Based on Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes (KSA)

DOI 10.11648/j.edu.20221101.12
Page(s) 12-25
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Keywords

Safety Capacity, Aeronautical Decision-Making, Safety-II, Problem-Solving, Training

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  • Department of Aerospace Science and Technology - PE-Safety, Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), S?o José dos Campos, Brazil

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  • Department of Aerospace Science and Technology - PE-Safety, Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), S?o José dos Campos, Brazil

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