Aviation Safety Manager

For more than 20 years I have handled flight safety near the top of the aviation industry — a glider pilot from the age of 16, the air force, one of the biggest airports in Europe, the national air navigation services, and a consultant to local airports, flying schools and ATC training centres. I hold a PgD in Aviation Safety Management from City, University of London.

On this channel I take the accidents and the near-misses apart the way an investigator does. Blame is the easy answer, and usually the wrong one; what I am after is the contributing factors the system was supposed to catch and didn't. Because the uncomfortable truth in roughly four out of five accidents is that the people were competent, trained, and doing their best — and it still went wrong. That gap, between good people and bad outcomes, is the thing worth understanding.

I build aviation safety management systems that survive the audit — and I say so plainly when they won't.

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