Risk Management Magazine

Regardless of how you do it, make sure you include your crewmembers as active participants in the flight.

As Army aviators, we strive to prepare ourselves for any emergency situation we may encounter. Much time is spent in the aircraft practicing emergencies to the extent regulations allow.

I was just four months out of flight school when I found myself deployed to Iraq. For the most part, progression was uneventful, except for those dust landings under night vision goggles.