Just as a pilot performs a number of system checks on the airplane before take off, it’s important to make sure that a print project doesn’t contain any serious errors that will prevent it from ...

Preflight checks are a legally mandated and critical element of flight safety, requiring pilots to be familiar with all flight information and ensure aircraft airworthiness before takeoff. These ...

Following heavy rain, an incorrect fuel sumping procedure (belly sump before wing tanks) during preflight allowed water to re-accumulate in the aircraft's fuel system, despite no water being initially ...

Now that travel is slowly resuming as more states relax coronavirus restrictions, airlines are adding another health safety measure. United Airlines and Alaska Airlines said this week that they will ...

The authors of preflight checklists are addicted to the “Windshield-check” or “Radome-check” format. The standard response of “check” does little to provide specific information that pilots should ...

Create a checklist of steps to ensure positive implementation of drone technology initially — and ongoing success for the long run. While design has long been digital, the physical world has not. Now ...

Pilots should not be complacent when running through the preflight checklist, the NTSB says. Credit: Yacobchuk/Getty Images At times, pilots have made "rote" callouts—acting out of habit rather than ...

Pilots use a detailed pre-flight checklist before taking passengers’ lives into their hands. So why shouldn’t operating room surgeons and nurses be subjected to the same rigorous preparation? That’s ...