“I’m suggesting we like to take on challenge and adventure, and risk is an inherent part of both.” We’ve been talking about how to survive our addiction to flying for a long time now, since the beginning of aviation, in fact. We’ve called it Airsense, Headwork, Judgment, Threat and Error Management, and other names not fit to print, but now we have a relatively new label for it: Risk Management. As the FAA transitions from the Practical Test Standards to the Airman Certification Standards in 2016, you’ll hear a lot more about Risk Management (RM), since it will be evaluated on the practical test, flight reviews, etc. There will be no shortage of aerial educators, pontificators and bombasticators, myself included, discussing RM and how it applies, in excruciating detail, to…
