In a lot of mentour pilot stories and other online air crash documentaries, what is the term used when a pilot knows (insert the problem here) is not the problem as the evidence in front of their eyes shows otherwise. Its talked alot about and it is a human factors issue. Im drawing a blank and wanted to read more into it.
What is the human factor term called for this bias?
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delusion?
nope.
https://airlinesafety.blog/2014/04/21/the-role-of-cognitive-bias-in-aircraft-accidents/
Perhaps it's in here?
Perhaps it's in here?
Confirmation bias, is one that gets me once in a while, when diagnosing a car problem, or more like skipping a thorough diagnoses of a car problem... Like I don't need to investigate because I've seen this before... and then its some new failure that produced the same problems as a previous failure. Not a problem on the ground as much as in the air!
THANK YOU!!!! This is the term I was looking for.
Confirmation bias - when you see what you expect.
Not what it is front of you.
Not what it is front of you.
What do you mean mentour pilot?
Mentor - a trusted advisor. One who guides or trains new or inexperienced people in a profession.
I know mentor. So he just misspelled it?
Thanks - I hadn’t heard of that channel.
I read the actual reporting on aviation mishaps (crashes) because the documentaries lack the nuanced detail and technical sophistication that I prefer.
This one, Atlas Air 3591, was particularly germane to my work and is largely the result of startle.
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR2002.pdf
MolaKule
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It appears to be a Swedish Aviation Website using the British spelling of Mentor.
According to this text,
https://airlinesafety.blog/2014/04/21/the-role-of-cognitive-bias-in-aircraft-accidents/
It appears Confirmation Bias is a subcategory of Cognitive Bias.
Confirmation bias is the correct term. You only see what fits your preconceived idea and ignore or discount other inputs.
One of my former neighbours was a pilot for a major airline. We were talking about an amateur pilot who had just followed a defective gyro right into the ground killing everyone on board.
He said that during one of their simulations the pilot flying was following the defective gyro in front of him around and around in circles, ignoring the other 2 gyros as well as the compass. My neighbour, as the co-pilot, was forced to intervene.
Up until that point the pilot flying just didn't catch on to what was happening. And that's why airliners have two competent pilots.
One of my former neighbours was a pilot for a major airline. We were talking about an amateur pilot who had just followed a defective gyro right into the ground killing everyone on board.
He said that during one of their simulations the pilot flying was following the defective gyro in front of him around and around in circles, ignoring the other 2 gyros as well as the compass. My neighbour, as the co-pilot, was forced to intervene.
Up until that point the pilot flying just didn't catch on to what was happening. And that's why airliners have two competent pilots.
That’s what I had thought, but clearly, he meant something different.
I think it's a deliberate corruption of the word mentor purely for the commercial purposes of that website. There is no special British spelling, we use mentor like everybody else. Mentour is a name rather than a word, it doesn't exist in any major English dictionary.
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I have no idea why the spelling. I just like the format and content of his videos. No emotion, no far left, no far right, just fact and excellent content,.
MolaKule
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Would I still get honorable mention if I said that mentor in Lithuanian is mentorius or méntoras in Greek?
Probably not.
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