ATSB AVIATION SAFETY SURVEY - COMMON FLYING ERRORS

In November 2003, the ATSB distributed the Aviation Industry Safety Survey to pilots registered on the pilot licence register maintained by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). The sample consisted of 5000 Australian Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL) and Commercial Pilots Licence (CPL) holders with current medical certificates. The names and addresses were supplied by CASA under a confidentiality agreement with a mail distribution service that conducted the survey mailout. At no point was the identification and addresses of respondents made known to the ATSB. Nor were pilots survey responses made known to CASA. The survey was designed to ask operational personnel about their perception of safety in their workplace and comprised two sections. The second, Part B, asked respondents about their flying experiences in the 12 months prior to the survey. Although Part B included nine questions, only those answers referring to the question requesting information on an error or incident have been addressed in this report. This report focuses on those errors and/or violations reported by pilots based on the most serious error they had made or seen in the 12 months preceding the survey. Most of the responses describe errors attributed to human action that have been either exacerbated or mitigated by the organisational environment in which they occurred. This report therefore conveys the opinion of industry and not the opinion of the ATSB. However, standard analytical methodology has been applied to the best extent possible. For detailed information regarding contributory factors in occurrences, please refer to Appendix A.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.atsb.gov.au/media/36891/Survey-_common_flying_errors.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Australian Transport Safety Bureau

  P.O. Box 967, Civic Square
  Canberra ACT 2608,   Australia 
• Publication Date: 2004-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; References;
• Pagination: 48 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic; Aircraft pilotage; Airline pilots; Attitudes; Aviation safety; Civil aviation; Human error; Organizations; Surveys; Traffic incidents
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00976314
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1877071692
• Report/Paper Numbers: Aviation Research Paper, B2003/0176
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 15 2004 12:00AM