Airmanship: Ethnography of Aviation Safety

This book takes readers beyond the technical manuals and cockpit procedures to explore aviation as a lived experience. Based on years of ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines the culture, mindset, routines, teamwork, and professional identities that define airmanship. Offering a glimpse into the lives of pilots and flight attendants, they emerge not as anonymous operators of a system, but as individuals negotiating judgement, responsibility, and trust in an environment where precision ...