THE AVIATION PLACE

What’s this all about then?

Welcome to this place. Or space. Actually, both.

It is a place for the RECKless – those needing (or wanting) to fill a gap in their Resources, Experience, Connections or Knowledge.

What needs filling?

That space between Safety and Danger, where all of us operate pretty much all of the time (or try to anyway). The thing is, we don’t think safety is the end goal. it isn’t a “you’re either are or you’re not!” kind of a thing. We think it is more of a place to aim for, and how close (or far) we get to it is often down to how much of those things we mentioned above you have.

So that’s the space we are trying to fill.

Filled with what?

Clever, useful, handy, helpful, interesting stuff. We think the best learning comes from talking, asking questions, sharing experience, laughing and occasionally yelling at people when they get stuff wrong.

We are definitely joking about one of those things. But the rest is true, so this is all about sharing stories, providing resources, practical information to help you on your aviation journey. From weird puns to the best pubs on layovers, tackling topics we all probably should know more about to random facts to feed your brain. This is what we want to share.

OK, how about you head to our LEARN STUFF section to see what we mean.

I have enough of that already!

There is LOADS of stuff out there in the industry already, don’t get us wrong. Procedures, training, forums, newsletters, regulations, more regulations (there are always a lot of those), groups that develop regulations and send you annoying notices about new regulations you now need to follow, compliance checks, books, boring books, boring people who talk at you as if their brain is a textbook, exams, notices, alerts, NOTAMs…

So much stuff, mixed and mashed together in a big muddle geared at guiding us towards safety,. and it’s all great (well, some of it is).

The trouble is there is sometimes too much stuff. We are inundated by it, and not all of it works for every person. So this place here is just one more part of a big safety puzzle, and might or might not be a part that fits for you.

We hope it does.

How is it going to be any different?

Well, we like to focus on the people – the humans – working in aviation, After all, we are at the centre of just about all of it. Unfortunately, we (or rather our human factors) are usually squishing about at the centre of a lot of accidents and incidents as well, so we really want to focus on that.

But don’t get mad! We ‘re not saying we’re all bad. For every human factor error, we think there are probably 12427348723498234988238724 human factorsy good stuff, so we want to talk about all those bits as well!

Which brings us back to this place

Here we are. A place set up by pilots for other pilots, and also for anyone else in the aviation industry who might find it useful. Like ATCOs (yep, we have some stuff for you too!)

If you want to find out more than JUMP ON IN.

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