Opinion: A New Approach To Resilient Performance In Aviation Safety

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An Embry-Riddle and NASA team analyzed captioned video from simulator sessions to identify positive pilot performance.

Credit: Embry-Riddle
While aviation tends to focus on learning from mistakes—and rightly so—the potential to learn from positive outcomes often goes unrecognized. Jon Holbrook, a cognitive scientist specializing in aviation at NASA’s Langley Research Center, says that pilot intervention has “kept millions of flights...
P. Barry Butler

P. Barry Butler is president of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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