1. The Successful Aviation Professional AST 141

2. Professionalism Positive, courteous attitude Punctuality Appearance Good follow-through Concern for other than self Knowledgeable

3. Disciplined Staying Power- Determination Focus- Goal oriented Organized daily routine Remember the 5 P’s- Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance

4. Integrity Do what’s right even when no one’s watching “If you Don’t have your integrity you don’t have much worth having”

5. Good Moral Character Be willing to accept personal responsibility Don’t bow to peer pressure Alcohol/Drugs can ruin an aviation career One of the requirements for an ATP Have a degree of humility- No matter what you’ve done, someone’s done it better- being cocky will kill you in aviation

6. Human Factors An early start

7. Accidents 75% of General aviation accidents are directly or indirectly caused by the pilot- most occur during takeoff and landing Accidents don’t just happen, they have a chain of events- however subtle If you learn to recognize it early on, you can break it.

8. Notable crew caused accidents United 173- Portland, DC-8- ran out of fuel while trying to fix landing gear Eastern Airlines L-1011, 1972- flew into ground under same circumstances Pan-AM, KLM 747 collision on runway- deadliest aviation accident ever Air Florida Flight 90- icing Examples in General Aviation are too numerous to mention.

9. Aeronautical Decision Making Crew Resource Management- Using all available resources to solve a problem Factors which affect aeronautical decision making- PIC responsibility, communication, workload management, resource use, and situational awareness.

10. PIC responsiblity Fit to Fly?- level of stress, general health,knowledge & skill, recency of experience, attitude propensity (?) PIC responsibility concepts: Self assessment Hazardous Attitudes (next) Interpersonal relationships

11. 5 Hazardous attitudes that can kill in an airplane Anti-authority- Don’t tell me! Impulsivity- Just do it! Invulnerability- It’ll never happen to me! Macho- Watch this! Resignation- That’s life!

12. Communication Effective Listening Barriers to Communication Verbal and Non-verbal communication

13. Resource Use Resource Recognition Internal resources- handbooks, checklists, CFI, another pilot, passengers, charts External resources- controllers, ground personnel, FSS

14. Workload Management Planning- to prevent overload to include delegation Prioritize- Learn to do Overload- Learn to recognize

15. Situational Awareness Operational Conditions- status of aircraft, your own ability Environmental Conditions- traffic, terrain, weather, interpersonal Recognize obstacles to SA- Stress, sickness, distractions, fatigue

16. Barnhart’s Aviation AXIOMS: Remember! 5 P’s 3 useless things to a pilot- runway behind you, altitude above you, air in the tanks Learn from the mistakes of others, you won’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Aviate, Navigate, Communicate- in that order Keep looking around there’s always something you’ve missed.

17. Axioms ctn. The only time you have too much fuel is when you’re on fire. Never let your aircraft take you somewhere your brain didn’t get 5 minutes earlier It’s always better to be down here wishing you were up there than up there wishing you were down here Think! Every takeoff is optional every landing is mandatory There are 3 rules for making good landings– unfortunately nobody knows what they are.