Reducing the Accident Rate

mandatory continuing education for pilot license.

It works in the medical professions.

It doesn't have to be a seminar, it could be on-line courses.


(Snowbird) wrote in
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Hi All,


*snip*


Anyway, here's the question: how DO we reduce the accident
rate? How do we preach, not just to the choir, but to the
80-90% of pilots who *don't* attend WINGS seminars or other
recurrant training?

Cheers,
Sydney

smpharmanaut wrote in message 8.51...
mandatory continuing education for pilot license.
It works in the medical professions.
It doesn't have to be a seminar, it could be on-line courses.

There is mandatory continuing ed for pilots in the form
of BFR. Evidently it doesn't suffice.

What form and how much, at what interval, do you suggest?

(Snowbird) wrote in
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Anyway, here's the question: how DO we reduce the accident
rate? How do we preach, not just to the choir, but to the
80-90% of pilots who *don't* attend WINGS seminars or other
recurrant training?

Cheers,
Sydney

smpharmanaut wrote:

mandatory continuing education for pilot license.

It's called a "flight review". For many of us, it happens once every two years.

George Patterson
In Idaho, tossing a rattlesnake into a crowded room is felony assault.
In Tennessee, it's evangelism.

"smpharmanaut" wrote in message
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It works in the medical professions.

No, it doesn't "work" in the medical profession.

Most doctors are self-motivated and attend CME courses out of their own
interest.

Those docs who are not interested in CME have lots of ways to go on a ski
vacation and get credit for the CME course anyway.

The same happens with CFI renewal courses right now and would happen with
mandatory pilot CME -- those who would benefit don't need the mandate.



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Richard Kaplan, CFII

www.flyimc.com

Of course it will only work for those motivated to continue learning.
Still, it will at least provide continued exposure to information for
those that are motivated, and hopefully even those not so motivated will
benefit from that exposure. In my profession, you can pick and choose
which CE's to complete. Some are brainless, some are challenging. Some
are not applicable to a particular branch of the profession.

I'd like to have access to standardized lesson plans for CE in piloting
that would be applicable to my level of flying (single engine, light
aircraft). I know it would help me.

Now there will be those that will go for the brainless, easy lessons.
"You can lead a horse to water..."

I think it would be an economic way to improve pilot skills.



"Richard Kaplan" wrote in
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"smpharmanaut" wrote in message
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It works in the medical professions.

No, it doesn't "work" in the medical profession.

Most doctors are self-motivated and attend CME courses out of their
own interest.

Those docs who are not interested in CME have lots of ways to go on a
ski vacation and get credit for the CME course anyway.

The same happens with CFI renewal courses right now and would happen
with mandatory pilot CME -- those who would benefit don't need the
mandate.



--------------------
Richard Kaplan, CFII

www.flyimc.com

smpharmanaut wrote:

Now there will be those that will go for the brainless, easy lessons.
"You can lead a horse to water..."

Or, as one of Heinlein's characters succinctly put it, "You can lead a student to
knowledge, but you cannot make him think."

George Patterson
In Idaho, tossing a rattlesnake into a crowded room is felony assault.
In Tennessee, it's evangelism.

"smpharmanaut" wrote in message
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mandatory continuing education for pilot license.

After I'd been flying for awhile, I began to notice a disturbing decline in
the proportion of my time spent looking outside (flying VFR). In retrospect,
it's easy to see how that could happen: there's no overt feedback to remind
you that you're doing something wrong when your eyes linger inside the
cockpit, so a bad habit of neglecting the exterior scan can easily creep up
on you.

I made a conscious effort to monitor and correct the problem. But I wonder
what other bad habits might develop unnoticed. I suspect that recurrent
training every two years is inadequate to catch such problems in a timely
manner.

One possibility, of course, is to fly with an instructor (or at least
another pilot) far more often. Another would be to compile an list of bad
habits that can develop in the absence of corrective feedback, and
explicitly monitor for them. Or perhaps it'd be beneficial to videotape
oneself while flying, and review the tape afterwards (perhaps showing
representative portions to an instructor) to watch for any lapses.

--Gary

I began to notice a disturbing decline in
the proportion of my time spent looking outside (flying VFR).


Try covering up most of the instruments. VFR you don't really need much.

Jose


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"Teacherjh" wrote in message
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I began to notice a disturbing decline in
the proportion of my time spent looking outside (flying VFR).


Try covering up most of the instruments. VFR you don't really need much.

The problem wasn't that I was paying too much attention to the instruments.
Rather, I was starting to spend too much contiguous time on other tasks
(tuning radios to initiate flight following or open my flight plan; looking
at charts, etc.) with only a cursory glance out the window. I also noticed
that my visual scan would pause unnecessarily while I was talking over the
radio--kind of like drivers with cell phones, I guess.

--Gary