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.

“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.

As many of you have heard, aviation mishaps spike most years during the fourth quarter. However, I am excited to say that commanders have taken a proactive approach and reversed the trend of the dangerous fourth quarter.