Risk Management Magazine

In the summer of 1990, I was a new warrant officer just out of flight school who was eager to learn to fly, so I volunteered for a mission with a first lieutenant. Our mission was to support our state’s anti-drug division, which later became nationally known as the RAID program.

A company-sponsored motorcycle safety day and ride is always a welcome change to the daily grind. It was during one of these events that seven of my fellow riders and I learned a near-fatal lesson in proper motorcycle safety inspections.

As time goes on, our comfort and confidence with our aircraft inevitably grows, and what used to take intense concentration becomes easy to do.