AOPA Turbine Pilot Magazine - March 2025 - 96

TECHNIQUE /
Combating human error
Why did I do that-again?
BY BEN BERMAN
I PUSH THE throttles up and the Cessna
Citation lunges forward. Runway stripes
flash under the nose, and at the right
instant I point the nose up at a clear
blue sky. We smoothly rise as the ground
falls away.
A few seconds later, we're climbing
through 400 feet. Airspeed is plentiful.
The tower tells me about traffic off the parallel
runway. I look for that and then take
their invitation to contact departure control.
Climbing through 5,000 feet, it's time
for the after-takeoff checklist. Gear is up,
lights are out. Flaps? Oh boy, they're still
at the takeoff setting. I pop the selector
up. We're going 190 knots, so I just barely
didn't overspeed the flaps. Freed of that
drag, the airplane lunges forward again. I
normally raise the flaps at 400 feet. Why
not today?
96
AOPA PILOT / March 2025
Hindsight is 20/20. Thinking back on
the takeoff and climb, I was distracted by
the tower's traffic advisory. I could have,
would have, should have retracted the
flaps. But let's use some foresight and
try to figure out how to keep this from
happening again, so I don't go on and
overspeed the flaps someday. Sadly, I can't
reliably prevent this kind of mistake. The
human brain, so capable that it allows us
to fly airplanes, also fails us in a few characteristic
ways. We can't eliminate these
built-in vulnerabilities of our brain's processing,
but we can fight back.
Multitasking and distraction
Pilots are excellent multitaskers, right?
In truth, none of us can multitask at all.
Instead, if I could monitor my brain's workings
while I flew, I would see my mind
rapidly switching from one thing to the
next, never really doing two things at once.
This is why we get distracted. If the
brain is focused on the control tower or
traffic outside at the moment we climb
through 400 feet, the cue to raise the flaps
is gone a split second later when we focus
back on the airplane.
Sometimes the system sets us up for
distraction. For their own procedural reasons,
the tower is going to switch us to
departure right after takeoff. And centers
set up some of their sector boundaries by
altitudes, so they're likely to give us a new
frequency just as we need to level off.
Tips
* See it coming: Set up our own
procedures to avoid colliding with
ATC's. Change the normal flap
CHRIS ROSE

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