BSAS 210 - Week 4 Blog Assignment
Lack Of Knowledge: The Silent Significant Threat to Aviation Safety November 13,2025 Often enough with repetition, constant training and automation, pilots can become full of themselves. If you do something so much and so often you can start to believe you know it all, this a dangerous attitude to have and is a part of the dirty dozen. A lack of Knowledge, is a human error that poses a significant threat to aviation Safety. There is usually two types of knowledge, one is the right kind which focuses on directives and information provided usually in the form of a manuals,briefings, training or something similar and then there is the second kind the one that we often hear which is not by the book but, by experience or habit. This is the kind that you pick up on, were taught or you've observed which is usually a short cut or a more efficient, effective way of doing things. The problem with the first kind is that its usually more tedious and requires more time, while the second ...