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Aeronautical radiotelephony procedure
Aeronautical radiotelephony procedure is the standardized voice rules governing radio contact between pilots and air traffic services, based on ICAO Annex 10 and FAA guidance.
Airborne Public Safety Association
The Airborne Public Safety Association (APSA), founded in 1968 as the Airborne Law Enforcement Association, supports safe public safety aviation and is headquartered in Frederick, Maryland.
Airprox
Airprox, short for aircraft proximity, is the ICAO code word for an air traffic incident in which aircraft safety was, or may have been, compromised.
Automation surprise
An automation surprise is an event in which cockpit automation behaves differently from what the pilot expects, usually because the pilot has lost track of the automation's mode.
Aviation English
Aviation English is the specialized variety of English used for radiotelephony between pilots and air traffic controllers, which ICAO has required for international operations since 2008.
Aviation safety
Aviation safety, also known as airline or aircraft safety, covers the practices, regulations, and management systems used to reduce risks across air travel; commercial flying is among the safest forms of transport.
Aviation safety management system
An aviation safety management system (SMS) is a formal, top-down approach to managing safety risk, built on the ICAO Annex 19 framework of four components.
Aviation Safety Reporting System
The Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) is a voluntary, confidential program, administered by NASA and funded by the FAA, where aviation personnel report safety incidents since 1976.
Brace position
The brace position, also called the crash position, is a protective posture aircraft passengers and crew assume before impact or ditching to reduce head and limb injuries.
Checklist
A checklist is an ordered list used to verify required actions, developed in aviation after the 1935 Boeing Model 299 crash and now used in surgery and other high-hazard work.
Continuous duty overnight
A continuous duty overnight, or "stand-up" overnight, is an airline trip sequence flown through the night with a crew rest break too short to count as rest.
Crew resource management
Crew resource management, first called Cockpit Resource Management, applies team management in the flight deck, using all available resources for a safe and efficient flight.
Fatigue Risk Management System
A fatigue risk management system (FRMS) is a data-driven, science-based method of continuously monitoring and managing fatigue-related safety risks, tailored to each operator so crews perform at adequate alertness levels.
Flight Operational Quality Assurance
Flight Operational Quality Assurance (FOQA), known in Europe as flight data monitoring, is a voluntary safety program in which operators routinely record and analyze flight data from normal operations.
Flight Safety Foundation
The Flight Safety Foundation is an international nonprofit based in Alexandria, Virginia, founded in 1945 to give impartial, independent safety guidance to the aviation and aerospace industry.
Foreign object damage
Foreign object damage, or foreign object debris (FOD), is damage to aircraft, engines, or aerospace hardware from stray objects, and the term also names prevention programs.
Go-around
A go-around, also called a missed approach or wave-off, is an aviation maneuver in which a pilot abandons a landing attempt and climbs away for another approach.
Human factors in aviation
Human factors in aviation is the application of knowledge about human abilities and limitations to aviation equipment, environments, and jobs, spanning flight operations, air traffic control, and maintenance.
JetBlue flight attendant incident
The JetBlue flight attendant incident, best known as the Steven Slater air rage incident, refers to the 2010 quit-by-emergency-slide episode and later JetBlue crew incidents.
Kristin C. Lewis
Kristin C. Lewis is a transportation scientist and Principal Technical Advisor for aviation fuels at the U.S. DOT Volpe Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a PECASE recipient.
Line Operations Safety Audit
The Line Operations Safety Audit (LOSA) is a voluntary, non-punitive observational program in which trained peer observers ride flight decks and record how airline crews manage threats and errors.
NASA-TLX
The NASA-TLX (Task Load Index) is a subjective workload questionnaire developed by Sandra Hart at NASA Ames in the 1980s, rating workload on six dimensions combined into a single score.
Operational risk management
Operational risk management is the discipline of identifying and mitigating risks from failed internal processes, people, systems, or external events, as defined in banking by the Basel Committee.
Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University
Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University, also known as RGNAU, is India's first central aviation university, created by an Act of Parliament in 2013 at Fursatganj, Uttar Pradesh.
Safety culture in aviation
Safety culture in aviation is the set of shared values, beliefs, and practices concerning safety in an aviation organization, which ICAO treats as essential to safety management systems.
Serious incident (aviation)
A serious incident in aviation is an incident indicating a high probability of an accident, defined by ICAO Annex 13 and investigated like an accident.
Situation awareness
Situation awareness (SA) is a person's perception of their environment, comprehension of its meaning, and projection of its near-future status, defined by Mica Endsley in 1995.
Situational awareness
Situational awareness is the perception and understanding of factors and conditions affecting safety in an operation, together with projecting how the situation will develop, a core aviation human-factors concept.
Threat and error management
Threat and error management (TEM) is an aviation safety framework, developed at the University of Texas from LOSA research in the 1990s, in which flight crews manage threats and errors before they become accidents.