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Breaking down Pilot Error

9/27/2014

 
We have been chatting a bit and thinking as we often do. We think there is a need to change how we label some aviation incidents as pilot error. Its too all encompassing lumping the truly dangerous pilots with those whom just misjudged or made a simple error, or was complacent in training or maintenance.
Pilot Error / Pilot Negligence / Pilot Misconduct
Pilot error is an honest mistake, pilot lands on wrong runway mistaking the wind direction they heard or saw on wind sock. or during the wait for takeoff clearance at a tower controlled airport and accidently release the brakes rolling past the hold line while reading the checklist. Either can end up forcing another pilot to go around.
Pilot negligence is the pilot landing downwind or wrong runway because failed to check the wind or taxing out on to a runway without communication or traffic check.
Pilot misconduct is knowingly landing downwind to forcing another pilot to go around, or another is an Pilot on instrument approach and calling visual before out of the clouds, or flying in the clouds when not licensed, or descending thru clouds while vfr on top without ifr clearance. and thousands more.
It does make you look at the incidents differently when can further decode from just pilot error.
Where would you put a pilot running out of fuel?
yes depends on the why, but how you react to a report of Pilot Misconduct of a pilot crashing short of an airport because ran out of fuel compared to a pilot negligence of running out of fuel. Pilot misconduct would be knowingly continuing a flight beyond the reserves of fuel and not refueling when had previously landed for a restroom break and flying at night in a day vfr plane, and pilot negligence is planning a certain time in flight with minimum reserves left only to find the winds twice as strong but failed to calculated a time speed distance problem to catch it before hitting reserves.

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