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Controlling Pilot Error Maintenance & Mechanics
AuthorLarry Reithmaier
ISBN: 0071373195
Softcover, 246 pages.
Pub date: June 1, 2001
Copyright: 2001

McGraw-Hill

Description Back Cover :

Lifesaving nuts-and-bolts knowledge

• Offers case studies that illustrate mechanics survival skills for takeoff, landing, and flight problems
• Provides workable solutions for aircraft malfunctions
• Describes the most common deadly communications errors between pilots and mechanics
• Increases the safety factor in your performance with procedures, paperwork, and equipment

FAST & FOCUSED RX FOR PILOT ERROR
The most effective aviation safety tools available, CONTROLLING PILOT ERROR guides offer you expert protection against the causes of up to 80% of aviation accidents....pilot mistakes. Each title provides:

• Related case studies
• Valuable save yourself techniques and safety tips
• Clear and concise analysis of error sets

BEST FOR PILOTS

• BUILD YOUR KNOWLEDGE BASE
• INCREASE YOUR CONFIDENCE
• SHARPEN YOUR SKILLS
• LEARN LIFESAVING TIPS
  

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: Problems with MEL (Minimum Equipment List).
Chapter 3: Illegal and/or Unsafe Flight Due to Excessive Pressure for On-Time Departure.
Chapter 4: Illegal or Unsafe Flight Due to Improper Maintenance Paperwork.
Chapter 5: Missed Checklist or Preflight Items.
Chapter 6: Flight Crew Misunderstandings of Aircraft Systems Resulting in Illegal and/or Unsafe Flight.
Chapter 7: Flight Crew Not Familiar with or Not Using Proper Abnormal or Emergency Procedures.
Chapter 8: Flight Crew Not Checking with Maintenance When Discrepancy Exists.
Chapter 9: Disagreements Between Flight Crew and Maintenance and/or Management.
Chapter 10: Summary and Final Discussion.
Appendix: Typical Turbine-Powered Airline Aircraft and Its Systems.

Author Biography

Larry Reithmaier is a retired mechanical engineer who, while at Rockwell International, helped design and develop the F2H, F3, F86H, F100, F101, and F4 jet fighters, the B-1B bomber, and Apollo and Skylab spacecrafts. The author of several technical books on aviation, he also wrote the Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians, Sixth Edition; the Aviation and Space Dictionary; Mach I and Beyond; Private Pilots Guide; and Aircraft Repair Manual.