Focus On Flight Safety!
By LT COL JASON KNAB, CHIEF, AIR MOBILITY COMMAND FLIGHT SAFETY DIVISION
At the Air Mobility Command (AMC) Flight Safety Division, we are committed to maximizing capacities while minimizing risks. We work tirelessly every day to collect data, trends, and feedback to identify possible hazards, risks, and errors using proactive safety programs. In addition, we maintain constant communication with the Wing Chiefs of Safety through monthly crosstalk, Teams threads, and digital correspondence.
As we approach the end of 2024 and move into 2025, the Flight Safety Division remains energized to curb mishaps by focusing on specific areas of flight safety. These focus areas are aircraft agnostic and not attributed to any base or flying community.
Our exceptional proactive safety programs drive these AMC Safety Focus areas. We will emphasize multiple areas of interest to curb mishaps and protect our aircrews while they push the limits and remain a superior mobility fighting force.
Although not exhaustive, the following areas shall be AMC Safety Focus areas:
- Bolstering proactive safety program awareness.
- Fostering a Just Culture in squadrons.
- Promoting fatigue awareness.
- Advocating maximum endurance operations risk management.
- Ensuring aircrew proficiency and recency.
- Assessing experience levels and readiness.
- Implementing an improved operational risk management.
- Promoting stabilized approaches and landings.
- Mitigating jet blast on the ground.
- Minimizing hot brakes incidents.
- Enhancing aerial port operations.
- Promoting proficient and standard air traffic control and ground communications.
- Ensuring stable receivers during air refueling.
- Refining boom operator procedures and techniques.
By focusing on these areas of interest, we are excited to continue using proactive safety measures to curb mishaps while acting and communicating our priorities to aircrews at our flying wings. LET’S GO!