Risk Management Magazine

Although all’s well that ends well, I realize how lucky we were. I also realize how blatantly wrong I was not to file a flight plan before we departed.

As an officer and aviator in the U.S. Army, I — like most of you — have been exposed to a significant amount of safety training. We’ve all learned that the unseen hazard is oftentimes the most dangerous.

“Every landing is a slope landing” was always preached to me during flight school and progression to Readiness Level 1. Now, instead of just doing it because I was told to, I believe in it from experience.