Risk Management Magazine

The day’s flight started out like so many before: mundane paperwork-related tasks, a brief oral evaluation, aircraft preflight, etc., and it was now instrument evaluation time.

Airport pavement markings and signs are intended to provide useful information to pilots during takeoff, landing and taxiing. But how effective are these markings and signs when a PI doesn’t understand what the depicted information represents?

There I was, arriving to my new unit as the safety officer and learning there was no pre-accident plan (PAP) or mishap response plan (MRP).