SMS Lessons
Developing a Part 5 SMS – There’s a Better Way
Developing a Part 5 SMS? Don’t re-invent the wheel! Today, with SMS mandates on the horizon for part 135 operators, 14 CFR § 91.147 operators, and certain part 21 certificate holders, many people still think their SMS needs to be developed internally, including integration with tools such as flight data monitoring. So they spend 3…
Read MoreThe Part 5 SMS Gap Analysis Trap
Part 5 SMS development and the outdated SMS gap analysis. Safety Management Systems (SMS) have come a long way since 2006, when they were first mandated by ICAO, and today many operators rely on an experienced SMS service provider to guide implementation. Twenty years ago SMS requirements were new and not well understood. So to…
Read MoreThreat & Error Management
Threat and error management (TEM) is not new; we’ve been practicing it at some level for decades, and it occurs in just about every flight operation, every maintenance operation, and in everything we do hiyo3lg. We just don’t call it that, or think about it in those terms. Back in the 1980’s I was training…
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