Illya Kuryakin wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2019 6:40 pm
C.W.E. wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2019 6:29 pm
Illya K, is this Swiss cheese thing the new age escape language for these screw ups or is it just a touchy feely way to evade responsibility?
Yes my fine feline friend. It's a politically correct term used to hide behind when you can't face the simple inescapable fact that you POOCHED IT !
Illya
It’s days like this I wish all old people would just keel over and die.
It’s not a “touchy feely new age” term. It was coined by your generation after yours and previous generations kept crashing planes at rates that would cause an international crisis if they were happening today. You two didn’t crash. Skill, practices that reduce the possibility of the holes lining up and likely not even realizing it, and more than a bit of luck I’m willing to bet.
A Swiss cheese model is one where there are several individual contributing factors to a crash, none of which individually would cause it. Using defence in depth eliminates or greatly reduces these causes, and requires many things to fail in order for an accident to happen.
For example. How many times do you check your gear? Not including what your EGPWS or gear horn or annunciations will tell you?
How many times do you check fuel besides before starting up?
If you’re so good and this Swiss cheese model is a bunch of hogwash, you should only say “once”, since you’re super pilots who will never forget such basic things.