PILOTS FLUENCY

Poorly executed cross wind landings are a major cause of runway excursions. Often the outcome is associated with prevailing runway surface friction being other than dry - maybe wet, often contaminated. Some of the issues apply to the maintenance of direction control, during a take off or a rejected take off, but runway excursion outcomes on departure are much less common and are not specifically considered in this article. Crosswind Landings are a major cause for runway excursions when poorly executed. Read More HERE

Loss of communications between aircraft and ATC may occur for a variety of reasons, some technical and others resulting from mis-management of the man-machine interface. Losses of communications can vary considerably in length; it is, however, those with an impact on day-to-day ATC functions which have drawn attention to the problems and led to studies for their resolution.

The term "PLOC", an acronym for "prolonged loss of communications", has come into use in civil aviation to describe this phenomenon, while the term "COMLOSS", an abbreviation of "communications loss", is preferred by the military. Read MoreHERE