03-28-2016, 10:51 AM
Is there a rogue in the house?
P2, you mentioned;
"Tony Kern also documents this phenomenon in the military with his book Rogue Pilot".
IMO "Darker Shade of Blue" is one of the best books on Human factors you will read. It was also written at a time when HF was not as commercially understood or applied as it is today. If ever you get a chance to attend one of Kern's lectures I highly recommend it. Money well spent and time well allocated, unlike attending one of the group masturbation and cucumber sandwich eating sessions promulgated by Skidmore and his band of pony pooh peddlers.
Of interest is the 'rogue' concept which doesn't only apply only to pilots, it also applies to organisations, CEO's and Regulators. Each of these areas can and does have rogue elements operating within them where normalised deviation becomes the norm, it becomes the standard, an accepted practise. A close examination of CAsA, it's history, it's half-baked approach to safety and procedures as well as it's comical legacy of bullying and malfeasance shows a normalised deviation to what it has deemed to be a normal regulatory behaviour, a mentality that has existed and flourished for decades. As a result there have been many accidents and deaths that can be attributed back to this 'rogue' mentality by the Regulator.
One day we may have a Regulator staffed, managed and oversighted not by bench warmers being rewarded for their years of kissing military and political ass, not by lazy sods filling in their last few years topping up their super funds and semi retiring on the taxpayer funded payroll, and not by sociopaths and pyscophants with small dicks who are pussy whipped at home. No we may have skilled, industry learned aviation folk who have earned their trade in a stalled Metro at low altitude, or by stripping down a Lycoming while wearing a blindfold, or skilled pilots penning operations manuals and the like in clear, succinct, workable and sensible fashion, minus the legalese and other such bollocks..........
So be it, that concludes my Monday twiddle. So as to not deviate from standard operating procedures I shall now brew a fresh pot of black, take my four legged companion for a wander around the community and then I shall lay back and bask in the afternoon sun as it beckons me to put down my book and take a quick flight around the block.
GD
P2, you mentioned;
"Tony Kern also documents this phenomenon in the military with his book Rogue Pilot".
IMO "Darker Shade of Blue" is one of the best books on Human factors you will read. It was also written at a time when HF was not as commercially understood or applied as it is today. If ever you get a chance to attend one of Kern's lectures I highly recommend it. Money well spent and time well allocated, unlike attending one of the group masturbation and cucumber sandwich eating sessions promulgated by Skidmore and his band of pony pooh peddlers.
Of interest is the 'rogue' concept which doesn't only apply only to pilots, it also applies to organisations, CEO's and Regulators. Each of these areas can and does have rogue elements operating within them where normalised deviation becomes the norm, it becomes the standard, an accepted practise. A close examination of CAsA, it's history, it's half-baked approach to safety and procedures as well as it's comical legacy of bullying and malfeasance shows a normalised deviation to what it has deemed to be a normal regulatory behaviour, a mentality that has existed and flourished for decades. As a result there have been many accidents and deaths that can be attributed back to this 'rogue' mentality by the Regulator.
One day we may have a Regulator staffed, managed and oversighted not by bench warmers being rewarded for their years of kissing military and political ass, not by lazy sods filling in their last few years topping up their super funds and semi retiring on the taxpayer funded payroll, and not by sociopaths and pyscophants with small dicks who are pussy whipped at home. No we may have skilled, industry learned aviation folk who have earned their trade in a stalled Metro at low altitude, or by stripping down a Lycoming while wearing a blindfold, or skilled pilots penning operations manuals and the like in clear, succinct, workable and sensible fashion, minus the legalese and other such bollocks..........
So be it, that concludes my Monday twiddle. So as to not deviate from standard operating procedures I shall now brew a fresh pot of black, take my four legged companion for a wander around the community and then I shall lay back and bask in the afternoon sun as it beckons me to put down my book and take a quick flight around the block.
GD