Controlling Pilot Error: Maintenance and Mechanics
Contains real-life pilot stories, valuable "save-yourself" techniques and an action agenda of preventive techniques to avoid risks.
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Controlling Pilot Error: Maintenance and Mechanics
Contains real-life pilot stories, valuable "save-yourself" techniques and an action agenda of preventive techniques to avoid risks.
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Controlling Pilot Error: Maintenance and Mechanics

Controlling Pilot Error: Maintenance and Mechanics

by Larry Reithmaier
Controlling Pilot Error: Maintenance and Mechanics

Controlling Pilot Error: Maintenance and Mechanics

by Larry Reithmaier

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Overview

Contains real-life pilot stories, valuable "save-yourself" techniques and an action agenda of preventive techniques to avoid risks.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780071373197
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 06/01/2001
Series: Controlling Pilot Error
Pages: 276
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Larry Reithmaier is a retired mechanical engineer who, while at Rockwell International, helped design and develop the F2H, F3, F86H, F100, F101, and F4 jet fighters, the B-1B bomber, and Apollo and Skylab spacecrafts. The author of several technical books on aviation, he also wrote the Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians, Sixth Edition; the Aviation and Space Dictionary; Mach I and Beyond; Private Pilot's Guide; and Aircraft Repair Manual.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.

Chapter 2: Problems with MEL (Minimum Equipment List).

Chapter 3: Illegal and/or Unsafe Flight Due to Excessive Pressure for On-Time Departure.

Chapter 4: Illegal or Unsafe Flight Due to Improper Maintenance Paperwork.

Chapter 5: Missed Checklist or Preflight Items.

Chapter 6: Flight Crew Misunderstandings of Aircraft Systems Resulting in Illegal and/or Unsafe Flight.

Chapter 7: Flight Crew Not Familiar with or Not Using Proper Abnormal or Emergency Procedures.

Chapter 8: Flight Crew Not Checking with Maintenance When Discrepancy Exists.

Chapter 9: Disagreements Between Flight Crew and Maintenance and/or Management.

Chapter 10: Summary and Final Discussion.

Appendix: Typical Turbine-Powered Airline Aircraft and Its Systems.

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