Terrain ahead!
Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) with terrain display. Great invention!!! (As long as the GPS is operative, that is.)
Author: rudy
Aviation
What turn?
Sure, 210kt maximum? No problem! Keeping the bank angle below 20° on a straight departure? You got it! #confusingguidance
Aviation Work-As-Done
Don’t touch the button! – if you can see it
When an aircraft system is inoperative, the associated switches or push buttons are placarded with an INOP-sticker. Unfortunately, these small tags have black text on a red background. While that may seem conspicuous, the stickers…
Aviation
Don’t punish people for honest mistakes! – even if they take-off on a taxiway
On Thursday 5 February 2026 around 21:00 a Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) Airbus A320Neo (SK2590) started take-off on a taxiway instead of the runway. Luckily, the aircraft was brought to a safe stop and more than…
Uncategorized
Make it easy, not difficult – Recycling
In Belgium, Plastic, Metal and Drink packaging are considered as PMD waste and is collected separately. Used paper cups are not in this category – hence the sticker. However, when a smoothie is served in…
Road traffic
How can this still exist???! – Traffic light craziness
I truly cannot understand this still exists nearly six years after my previous post on this! A full green light with a red arrow. Not confused? Start counting the number of times you saw people…
Aviation
Boeing 777 triggered terrain alerts due to missing character
Pilots of a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER inadvertently entered an incorrect waypoint altitude constraint prior to departure, resulting in several alerts from the ground proximity warning system (GPWS) as the aircraft climbed out of Shanghai…
Aviation
Socio-economic factors affecting aviation safety
Just a quick reference for those unaware that EASA’s basic regulation (EU 2018/1139) includes provisions for the agency to cooperate with other institutions whenever socio-economic factors (such as social dumping) would influence aviation safety. Due to the ongoing “race to the bottom” allowing for dubious pay-to-fly schemes and false self-employment, this article will probably gain more and more importance towards the future…
Aviation Hindsight Bias
Hindsight bias…
The National Transportation Safety Board detailed in an accident report issued April 13, 2019 the circumstances that led to the crash of a Boeing B-17G airplane that killed seven people and injured seven others. The NTSB determined the probable cause of the accident was the pilot’s failure to properly manage the airplane’s configuration and airspeed following a loss of engine power. But what can really be learned from this accident?
Aviation
An ‘Understandable’ Mix-Up
First story The very experienced crew of an ATR-72 takes off from Köln/Bonn airport on 27 April 2020 but instead of lining up with the middle of runway 06, they position the aircraft at the…