Hello Class, Another week down for us in this class. I have a lot coming up and I am looking forward to my short break for school as I prepare to go to my next NCO professional development course. I can think of many companies that I could talk about risk management, but I am going to use my job in the military as the example for this week. We track flights daily, all around Alaska and some even cross-
country trips. The parts of filing flight plans are the flight plan itself, and then a risk assessment sheet. The risk assessment includes information such as: admin data, trip route, and different sections of risk management that factor into the overall risk that determines who approves the risk for the flight. The risk assessment for the flight includes but is not limited to the following: weather factors, duty day, training, communications, and terrain. One risk that always pops up moderate daily is communications. Here in Alaska, we are not equipped with over the horizon communications. Over the horizon communications are important for aircraft tracking, communication for in case of emergency and for many more reasons. The terrain in Alaska makes it difficult for the satellites to ping our equipment which makes it nearly impossible to track our aircraft through the mountainous terrain. The way that we
mitigate that risk is my Battalion purchased Garmin in reach radios. These allow us to visually track and talk to our aircraft when they are outside of radio range on a flight. These are not 100% but it as the best
thing my unit could produce for a temporary solution. -Kristen
