Flight safety Flashcards
What is Flight Safety?
- A conscious attempt to improve procedures and working practices both on the line and in the hangar, in order to meet the desired level of airworthiness. This allows the aircraft to fly safely without endangering personnel or the public.
- Identification of hazards or risks
- Method of reporting or investigations of FS occurances and identification to prevent reoccurrences
- A JUST culture
- Contributing factors to flight safety incidents include: Fatigue, skill fade, lack of experience, failure to follow procedures FFP, human errors or even a drop of moral or motivation of the tradesman. Mainly HUMAN FACTORS.
- Flight safety is everyone’s concern.
what are the aims of the sqn flight safety committee?
To identify hazards and risks and report and investigate flight safety occurrences and to identify the causes and provide recommendations to minimise potential reoccurrences.
draw the flight safety tree
DDH cochf - Col stafford
SO dcomd - Lt col penkman
UASO - Lt davison-wood
Sqn fso / SPLOT - Lt Cdr charlsworth
AEO - Lt Cdr stephen
FOD EXEC CPO - CPO Heale
DFSO/FS SEC - lt Cdr butler
AFSO DAEO - S/LT scholes
AFSO TO - Lt Cdr Inglis
SURVO - Lt pritchard
AFSO MAG - Lt Jenkins
AFSO SMR - Wo haseltine
day/nights - port/stbd
Aircrew - PO Stock
Exec - CPO Heale
QSC CPO - Kay
Support - CPO Douglas
Flight safety committee meetings
They attend a meeting termly to discuss any issues that may have been raised, usually based around flight safety log entries. Meeting includes personnel from different departments and watches. Flight Safety Officer FSO will review the Flight safety log weekly. Any issues needing further input are put before all station FSO at Yeovilton station meeting held termly.
What are the different types of cultures?
- Just
- Reporting
- Learning
- Questioning
• Flexible
What are the flight safety reporting methods?
- Flight safety log on the flight safety board, located near the line. This is the first step of reporting a flight safety issue.
- Defence confidential occurrence reporting scheme (DCORS)
- Submitting a DASOR (defence air safety occurrence report)
- In-forms
- ASIMS
What is on the flight safety board?
- BriefScan
- Flight safety meeting minutes • Flight safety log
- Air Safety Management Plan
- ASIMs Summary
- Flight safety committee
- FOD action
- How to raise a DASOR
- DDH and ODH responsibilities
What is a DASOR?
Used to report all air safety related occurrences, be it notification of an event which has already happened or identification of a potential air safety hazard. The primary method for submitting a DASOR is through the Air safety information management system (ASIMS). Only available on internal MOD networks and used for reporting and management of air safety occurrences and investigation information.
How do you raise a DASOR?
- Go onto ASIMS and create a new DASOR
- This gets sent to the occurrence managers (SPLOT & AEO)
- They decide how to action it.
Who does the DASOR go to?
- It depends on the period of operation as to which occurrence manager takes lead.
What action could be taken on receipt of a DASOR?
- Local investigation - SQN level (DDH) - carried out by duty eng or CPO who has completed a course
- Occurrence safety investigation - Station/fleet level (ODH)
- Service Inquiry - Military level (SDH)
What does the investigator ensure?
- As an investigator ensures all info for the occurrence manager is on the investigation report to be signed off
- If not it will be rejected for more information to be provided
What was the last DASOR?
look at board
Who runs flight safety on the squadron?
- The flight safety secretary - Lt Cdr Butler on behalf of the SPLOT
What are the 3 reporting awarenesses?
- Hazard observation -if you see something that could be an issue
- Incident - minor fault or injury
- Accident - major fault or injury
