A Practical Guide for Improving Flight Path Monitoring, being published this month on the Flight Safety Foundation website, tackles the issue of pilots’ ineffective monitoring of the airplane’s flight path, identified as a contributing factor in many accidents.
The guide is the final report of the Active Pilot Monitoring Working Group, created in 2012 by the first Human Factors Aviation Industry Roundtable, whose participants were concerned that, although aviation accident and incident rates had fallen to historic lows, too many accidents involved ineffective flight path monitoring as a factor.
“Monitoring is something that flight crews must use to help them identify, prevent and mitigate events that may impact safety margins,” the guide says. “Modern data collection methods point toward ineffective monitoring of the flight path as a contributing factor in many accident…
