NBAA Pushes New Effort To Curb CFIT Accidents

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Originally published at: NBAA Pushes New Effort To Curb CFIT Accidents

NBAA is intensifying efforts to reduce CFIT accidents, citing pilot response to terrain warnings and situational awareness as key risk factors.

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Yes, many instances including:

  • a pilot in South America shouting ‘Shutup Gringo’ at TWS warning, before he died against a mountain
  • Canadian International pilots who did respond but then tried the same approach again, after second warning checked their instrument switching etc. and realized they’d tuned a VOR not the ILS at Prince George BC. (Possible that a mix of fleet configurations after merger contributed - but trying approach again? !)

Yet recently a number of undershoots in North America - hitting localizer antenna , late for TWS but perhaps EGPWS would help a bit.

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Brain fade - shameful, having known the main push behind the warming system: Don Bateman.

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