AS 408 Test 1 Questions With Correct
Answers
Define Safety - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Protections from unintentional
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acts
List 5 preconditions for an accident - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Distraction,
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Rushing, Operating outside one's training, Desensitization, and Ignoring
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your instinct.
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Explain the difference between active and root causes - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Active causes are obvious (such as stalling the aircraft) and | | | | | | | | |
root causes are hidden (such as pilots not receiving high altitude stall
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recovery training). |
Describe the 5 factor model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Human (or man):
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How humans interact with safety and what we can do to make aviation
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safer → MAJORITY OF ACCIDENTS CAUSED BY HUMAN ERROR
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Machine:
Aviation technology - hazards found in the tech from the design to the
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manufacturing to the maintenance of the aircraft. | | | | | | |
,• Fail safe features - no one failure can result in accident
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• FLY BY WIRE SYSTEMS
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• Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
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• B767 ISD - 10 per month worldwide
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• Pg. 64 Figure 2-1.7
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o Bathtub Curve
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Medium: |
The environment in which the aircraft operations take place, equipment
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used, and personnel work directly affects safety
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• Natural Environment - weather, topography, elements
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• Artificial Environment - ATC, airports, navigation aids, system software
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(how the system will function)
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Mission: |
Purpose of the operation / type of mission (location and what you are
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doing)
Management:
Responsibility for safety always falls back on the MANAGEMENT - | | | | | | | | | |
controls the allocation of resources (select type of aircraft, personnel
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that fly and maintain those aircraft and what the mission is for that
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aircraft).
, Define Aviate - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Managing Airspeed, altitude and
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heading
Explain the difference between Safety and Security - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Safety prevents harm from unintentional actions while | | | | | | |
Security prevents hare from intentional actions
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What are the 3 levels of SA (Situational Awareness) - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Level 1: Perceiving critical factors in the environment | | | | | | |
Level 2: Understanding what those factors mean, particularly when
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integrated together with your goals| | | |
Level 3: Projection - Understanding what will happen with the system in
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the near future
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What are the 5 hazardous attitudes and their antidotes? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Anti-Authority: Follow the rules, they're usually right | | | | | |
Impulsivity: Not so fast, think first | | | | |
Resignation: I'm not helpless, I can make a difference
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Answers
Define Safety - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Protections from unintentional
| | | | | | |
acts
List 5 preconditions for an accident - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Distraction,
| | | | | | | |
Rushing, Operating outside one's training, Desensitization, and Ignoring
| | | | | | | | |
your instinct.
|
Explain the difference between active and root causes - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Active causes are obvious (such as stalling the aircraft) and | | | | | | | | |
root causes are hidden (such as pilots not receiving high altitude stall
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
recovery training). |
Describe the 5 factor model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Human (or man):
| | | | | | | | | |
How humans interact with safety and what we can do to make aviation
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
safer → MAJORITY OF ACCIDENTS CAUSED BY HUMAN ERROR
| | | | | | | |
Machine:
Aviation technology - hazards found in the tech from the design to the
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
manufacturing to the maintenance of the aircraft. | | | | | | |
,• Fail safe features - no one failure can result in accident
| | | | | | | | | | | |
• FLY BY WIRE SYSTEMS
| | | | |
• Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
| | | | |
• B767 ISD - 10 per month worldwide
| | | | | | |
• Pg. 64 Figure 2-1.7
| | | | |
o Bathtub Curve
| |
Medium: |
The environment in which the aircraft operations take place, equipment
| | | | | | | | | |
used, and personnel work directly affects safety
| | | | | | |
• Natural Environment - weather, topography, elements
| | | | | |
• Artificial Environment - ATC, airports, navigation aids, system software
| | | | | | | | | |
(how the system will function)
| | | |
Mission: |
Purpose of the operation / type of mission (location and what you are
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
doing)
Management:
Responsibility for safety always falls back on the MANAGEMENT - | | | | | | | | | |
controls the allocation of resources (select type of aircraft, personnel
| | | | | | | | | |
that fly and maintain those aircraft and what the mission is for that
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
aircraft).
, Define Aviate - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Managing Airspeed, altitude and
| | | | | | | |
heading
Explain the difference between Safety and Security - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Safety prevents harm from unintentional actions while | | | | | | |
Security prevents hare from intentional actions
| | | | |
What are the 3 levels of SA (Situational Awareness) - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Level 1: Perceiving critical factors in the environment | | | | | | |
Level 2: Understanding what those factors mean, particularly when
| | | | | | | | |
integrated together with your goals| | | |
Level 3: Projection - Understanding what will happen with the system in
| | | | | | | | | | | |
the near future
| |
What are the 5 hazardous attitudes and their antidotes? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Anti-Authority: Follow the rules, they're usually right | | | | | |
Impulsivity: Not so fast, think first | | | | |
Resignation: I'm not helpless, I can make a difference
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