Sector: Aviation
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CHIRP bids farewell to Phil Young
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Phil Young, CHIRP’s Engineering Programme Manager for the past five years is retiring. Phil joined CHIRP as the Engineering Programme Manager in October 2020 with the responsibility of responding to all engineering and ground handling and security reports. Phil started his career as an apprentice in manufacturing (Concorde, Brooklands). Worked at Heathrow twice, for a…
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What Could I Learn About Human Factors From This?
Fuel Starvation – impossible, or not… In November 2021, a Canadian DHC6 on a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Yellowknife to Fort Simpson departed with insufficient fuel and without the crew checking the fuel quantity on board. Before start and throughout the flight, there were numerous opportunities to identify the mistake and rectify the problem…
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A Sting in the Tail
Sunday 27th October was a perfect day for flying. My preflight complete and everything being normal, I taxied out, which was uneventful. I made my radio calls and proceeded to take off. However, as I was trundling down the runway and at about 50-55kts, the nose wheel just starting to lift, I got showered in…
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…and West Ham won the FA cup
So that’s the cold war scene set, now if you are sitting comfortably, I’ll begin. That day I was the radar director responsible for directing traffic around the Honington radar pattern. However, hovering in the background of my consciousness was the realisation that that night at Shawbury there was a dinner night for all of…