Air Transport Safety
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Captain Shem Malmquist has been involved in aviation safety work since 1981, working in multiple aspects of aviation safety, from charting procedures, aircraft design to human factors and weather avoidance.
Air Transport Safety
2y ago
(Image from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-cabin-pressurization.htm) Slow-Onset Hypoxia: An insidious killer Captain Shem Malmquist and Dr. Paul Buza, Florida Institute of Technology Have you ever ran a checklist, and then looked up a few minutes later and realized that something that you thought ..read more
Air Transport Safety
2y ago
Airborne Weather Avoidance By Captain Shem Malmquist Please also see my book, written with Roger Rapoport, available via the following link: “Angle of Attack“. You are on approach with convective weather in the area. Lightning is present, and you can ..read more
Air Transport Safety
2y ago
Weather Depiction by Captain Shem Malmquist “Flight 1210, I am currently depicting an area of extreme precipitation from your 10 o’clock to 2 o’clock approximately 40 miles in front of you”. We were enroute from TPA to MEM at FL380. Our ..read more
Air Transport Safety
3y ago
WHY DO WE NEED HARD LIMITS ON JET ENGINES?By Captain Shem Malmquist AN FSI COMMENTARY We make a number of assumptions about automation, the good, the bad and the problems. I believe that it is time to put some of these ..read more
Air Transport Safety
3y ago
SHORTLY AFTER A Smartlynx Estonian Airbus 320 took off on February 28, 2018, all four of the aircraft’s flight control computers stopped working. Each performed precisely as designed, taking themselves offline after (incorrectly) sensing a fault. The problem, later discovered, was ..read more
Air Transport Safety
3y ago
Air Transport Safety
4y ago
There is not a new transport airplane built that does not rely heavily on computerized systems. Automation has been the “name of the game” for several decades now, with each new generation adding more to it. Pilots are now accustomed ..read more
Air Transport Safety
5y ago
It seems every few weeks there is another news story about a person being denied boarding for wearing something that in the view of the airline is inappropriate. These standards vary and are quite subjective. Some middle eastern airlines will ..read more
Air Transport Safety
5y ago
On May 5, 2019, an Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100-95 crashed when returning to land at the Moscow Shremetyveo airport. Of the 76 passengers, 41 were killed in the accident. On departure the flight encountered an area of convective weather. It ..read more
Air Transport Safety
5y ago
Please click the link here for the full paper. Most accident analyses are based on ad hoc approaches. Many formal analysis techniques have been proposed, but few are widely used. This case study shows how a structured process called CAST (Causal Analysis ..read more