February 8, 2012
This article tells the story of inspiration for and creation of a ”ground proximity warning” system for pilots, as well as multiple other types of cockpit warnings. Don’t miss the video embedded as a picture in the article! It has the best details! Some choice excerpts: About 3.5 miles out from the snow-covered rock face, a red light flashed on the instrument [...]
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January 28, 2012
One of my students last semester (thanks, Ronney!) turned me on the “Callback” publication from the NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System. These are almost all first person stories written as case studies of errors and accidents or near accidents. There aren’t so many that it falls under my list of neat databases, but it certainly is interesting reading. I’ve collected [...]
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