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Catching Up With An American Hero On Our Safety… and His
Flight Safety
Information Senior Editor Roger Rapoport (Co-author of Grounded: How to solve the
aviation crisis) recently interviewed Captain Chesley Sullenberger. You can read the full text of
this interview by clicking here.
Sully on automation:
“People believe that
it’s easier to fly a plane when the flight controls are automated. Actually
it requires much more training and experience, not less, to fly highly
automated planes." Software safety experts like MIT’s Dr. Nancy
Leveson are quick to point out that there is no way a human can understand
exactly what an automated system is doing every second.”
Sully on
side-effects of the pandemic for pilots:
“Flying fewer hours
means crews can be distracted and lose the rhythm of the job. Reduced
passenger loads means planes are lighter and climbing faster. We are
already seeing more incidents that are precursors of eventual accidents.”
Sully on
Whistleblowers:
“How many red flags
and precursor accidents do there have to be before the industry separates
the truth from the noise? All incentives for pilots should be aligned to
the public good. We should be begging pilots to tell us the truth.”
Sully on Training:
“…so many aircraft
are mothballed and so many pilots aren’t flying, the airlines can do much
more training beyond the confines of a simulator. We should also be
modifying the planes parked in the desert to make them safer.”
Read the full interview here and find out why we were unable
to mail him a copy of Grounded.
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