The Easy Way to Enjoy Flying by Allen Carr

Author:Allen Carr [Carr, Allen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw
Tags: Anxieties & Phobias, Fitness, Health, Non-Fiction, Self-Help
ISBN: 9781405915250
Google: XCC0D5kV65oC
Amazon: B00CUSUHTY
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-06-05T23:00:00+00:00

No it doesn’t! Modern civil aviation has been described as very much a belt-and-suspender affair. The expression, though apt, is an understatement. Two belts and two pairs of suspenders would be more realistic. Of course it is human to err. Believe me, the airlines are more aware of this than you are. It is also true that, in the comparatively short history of aviation, many accidents can be attributed to human error. However, the main factor that makes modern civil aviation so incredibly safe is that after every one of those accidents, there is an inquest to determine its exact cause. Whether an accident is attributed to human error, mechanical failure, sabotage or to an unfortunate combination of several factors, the safety procedures are amended to ensure that, should that particular combination of events occur in the future, it will not result in a disaster.

A typical example is that on one occasion both pilots suffered from food poisoning because they selected the same meal, which turned out to be suspect. No accident resulted, but it is now standard procedure that pilots are forbidden to eat the same meal.

Pilots, engineers, mechanics and flight controllers are human and do make mistakes; this is why the procedures allow for this to ensure that, when they do, it will not result in disaster.

OK, you’ve convinced me that the plane won’t fall out of the sky, that the wings won’t fall off and that bad weather is no danger. I’m also convinced that the crew, mechanics and flight controllers are conscientious and competent and that, if they do make a mistake, the procedures have fail-safe systems to negate the error. But what about all these near misses I keep reading about; I’ve heard that the airways are now dangerously overcrowded and why are these flight controllers always on strike if it’s not because they are overworked and under-paid? The wings might not fall off, but if we collide with another plane or fly into a mountain I’m still dead!

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