Where Birds Don't Fly

Everybody makes their Safety Management System (SMS) goals, but nobody knows how to reach these goals. When any aviation regulatory oversight authority conducts SMS inspections of your operations and accepts your written airport or airline goals as conforming to regulatory requirements, they are actually accepting your wishes or dreams. Unless you have strategy in place for how to reach your goals, these goals are nothing else but wishes to be randomly achieved. When the regulatory oversight authority, in any jurisdiction, conducts inspections of your goals and establishing the validity of your goals, they could be inspecting for wishes and not for goals. A goal without a plan is only a wish. A team of random goal achievers. Canada was one of the first countries to regulatory implement an aviation Safety Management System. Part of the SMS regulations states: “A safety management system shall include a process for setting goals for the improvement of aviation safety and for measuring th