Safety Reports – Policy That Makes Us Different

Safety reports proved to be one of the trademarks of FlySEA group and the best example that in the VA world it is possible to follow important principles found in RL aviation.

Exactly like in real life procedures, we tend to learn from incidents and avoid the similar occurences in the future thanks to the non-punitive reporting policy.

Instead of hiding, our pilots file anonymous Safety Reports sharing their experience and causes of irregularities and flight incidents. Forms used for our safety reporting are, like all other documents we use, derived from the real-world aviation.

Based on the reports, SEA Flight Safety Officer investigates the incidents and issues the recommendations. Also, our Safety Department will issue the yearly safety assessment where all occurences will be categorised and put into perspective similar to the real aviation safety statistics.

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TRAINING/SAFETY BULLETIN

Safety Assessment 2009

Our crews reported 11 occurrences on 1615 departures recorded in 2008. Majority of incidents occured in critical phases of the flight, namely on take off or approach/landing.
Causes of incidents very realistically represent the sample found in RL aviation:
Technical reasons (6),
Weather (1),
ATC and ATM (1),
SOP and crew fatique (2),
Bird strike (1)
Thank you again for professional handling of irregularities and excellent reporting practice which makes SEA unique within the VA world.

Safety Corner

-excerpt from Aviation Safety Magazine-
Go-arounds are something of a "forgotten maneuver" for most pilots. The psychology of pilots is such that we try to "recover" from our mistakes, so we tend to try to turn bad landings into good ones instead of powering up and climbing away for another try. When was the last time you practiced a go-around? It may have been a very long time. So what happens on the day something completely outside the span of your expert aircraft control requires you to call off the landing from a point very near (or even on) the ground?