Operational Safety for Aviation Managers: Practice Beyond the Theory

This book examines the development of the foundations for aviation safety, providing a history of time-critical safety-related events and exploring why pilot inactivity, indifference, fixation and incapacitation can so pervade the lead up to the ’last minute’ as to leave a flight’s safe continuation resting on prompt remedial action.

John Frearson is a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and currently works in the Flight Standards Branch of Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority. He has been with CASA for more than 12 years and prior to that worked with ICAO in Manila. John has extensive experience in worldwide operations both in the cockpit and in various management, advisory and regulatory roles. He is type rated on the Boeing 777, the Airbus A320 and the Boeing MD-80.