Books
Managing Risk: Best Practices for Pilots
Wilson, Dale; Binnema, Gerald. Newcastle, Washington, U.S.: Aviation Supplies & Academics, 2014. 231 pp. Figures, resources, index.
This book — written, the authors say, to help pilot-readers “learn from the mistakes of others [because] you will not live long enough to make them all yourself” — is a compendium of the risks faced by anyone who flies, from new private pilots to seasoned veterans.
The authors — a professor of aviation at Central Washington University in the United States and an aviation safety consultant in British Columbia, Canada — say the book’s title “captures its essence. It documents and describes most of the significant risks associated with flight.”
Discussions of those risks include descriptions of related accidents involving aircraft as diverse as a Cessna 172, an Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia and a Boeing 747, and specific risk-mitigation recommendation…
