Risk Management Magazine

When folks think of hazardous weather during wintertime, they probably envision snow and ice-related storms. That’s not the case for my family and me. We witnessed a very different type of weather phenomenon in December 2003 — the San Simeon earthquake.

For as long as I could remember, my cousin had a bad habit of leaving the door open and leaning halfway out when backing up a vehicle. We told him this was dangerous and that eventually his luck was going to run out. One winter day, it did.

Crew mix plays a big part of flight planning and should never be taken lightly. Before one flight, I had some doubts about the crew mix. The majority of the experience was in the trail aircraft, which meant there was a possibility of task saturation for the PC of the lead aircraft.