| Abstrakt: |
Many components of flight training that students subconsciously use to develop the safety culture, they will adopt. This mindset is acquired from the beginning of flight training and continues to grow throughout each student's respective career. There are many routine tasks that are accomplished for every flight that often become neglected over time, and this creates a gap in the safety culture that must be filled. One task that has the potential for becoming routine is the aircraft preflight. Aircraft preflight inspection is a learned process acquired early in the flight training of pilots. From these early lessons, it is assumed that a careful pilot will develop sound, enduring habit patterns for assessing the preflight airworthiness of various aircraft. However, because of differences in the instructional approach, variations in flight instructor experience, and individual student learning styles, observable, measurable differences in the way students approach the preflight process often result. Some students learn methodical, thorough, and consistent preflight methods while other students demonstrate slipshod, haphazard, and unsafe techniques. Clearly, assessment of aircraft airworthiness using the preflight inspection is the safety starting block for any flight. Because the instructional Law of Primacy suggests that what is learned first is best retained, it is imperative that proper, systematic preflight procedures be properly taught and judiciously followed in order to create and nurture both an individual acceptance of safety and a collective culture of safety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
