Week 2 Posting

Like a previously stated I choose this topic to allow pilots and non-pilots alike to learn and understand the reality of CFIT. As a flight instructor one of the key topics or special emphasis area as the FAA calls it is CFIT. It must be learned and understood by student pilots as well as commercial pilots in order to gain a new rating. Will many pilots can recite a few details of what can prevent CFIT I really want to dig deeper as to why it happens and ways we can avoid it. I understand preparation and certain ways to avoid it but those steps may not be enough to prevent it. To understand it we must look at the history behind it to get a concept of what’s going on.

 

            Controlled Flight into Terrain is describes an accident in which an airworthy aircraft, under

pilot control, is unintentionally flown into the ground, a mountain, water, or an obstacle. CFIT is very

 

dangerous because most pilots are unaware of the danger they just put them self in until it’s too late.

 

Boeing was credited for coining the phase in the late 1970's and is the leading cause of airplane

 

accidents. From 1991 - 1995 a total of 17 Aircraft were lost due to CFIT will a total of 971 lives lost

 

in My option that’s 971 to many. (FAA, Section 3, Pg. 3.3)      

                                                                       References

Controlled flight into terrain accident history:

https://www.faa.gov/training_testing/training/media/cfit/volume1/3Sec.pdf