Danger in the Training Gap

Abstract

Verbatim from Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons. Not paraphrased, not summarized.

Loss of Control in flight has accounted for the largest share of worldwide passenger deaths over the past ten years. Not Controlled Flight into Terrain, not equipment failure or malfunction, not even weather – but Loss of Control, in flight. And there is a disturbing caveat to this fact: In every one of those accidents over the past ten years where there was a large loss of life – highly trained and legally qualified pilots were at the controls of the aircraft involved. Meaning these accidents should have been preventable – yet they were not, because the pilots in command failed to maintain effective control of their aircraft. The question is why? We believe it is because a critical gap has emerged between simulator based flight training and actual in flight conditions. We call it “The Training Gap” – and today we’ll explore how it came to be and more importantly what we can do to eliminate it.

Author

• Korner, William Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Keywords

• Aviation
• Aviation Safety and Security