Comments on: US Airways Flight 1549 and Public Safety http://www.publicsafetysignals.com/2009/01/16/us-airways-flight-1549-and-public-safety/ A discussion of Public Safety issues and why they matter Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:06:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sandy Boyd, Ed.D. http://www.publicsafetysignals.com/2009/01/16/us-airways-flight-1549-and-public-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-1073 Sandy Boyd, Ed.D. Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:54:35 +0000 http://www.publicsafetysignals.com/?p=139#comment-1073 Beyond the excellent work of our first responders, another direct link to public safety is the training that allowed the pilot to put the plane down in one piece. What we do now in public safety with interactive sim training was done first with the airline industry. Going back to Al Haines in 1989 with flight 232, he emphatically gave credit to the survival of half the passengers to the hours of training he went through in cockpit simulators. In order to continue to offer professional and immediate service to the public, we need to offer as close to lifelike training experiences so that when the actual incident occurs, public safety will be better able to make correct, split second decisions. Be safe. Sandy Boyd Beyond the excellent work of our first responders, another direct link to public safety is the training that allowed the pilot to put the plane down in one piece. What we do now in public safety with interactive sim training was done first with the airline industry. Going back to Al Haines in 1989 with flight 232, he emphatically gave credit to the survival of half the passengers to the hours of training he went through in cockpit simulators.

In order to continue to offer professional and immediate service to the public, we need to offer as close to lifelike training experiences so that when the actual incident occurs, public safety will be better able to make correct, split second decisions.

Be safe.

Sandy Boyd

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