Where Birds Don't Fly

Instant gratification is a common obstacle to safety in aviation but is very different than short term corrective action. A short-term corrective action is an immediate action to correct a condition or hazard. While the short-term repairs or mitigates the hazard for continuous operations, it doesn’t correct the contributing events causing the hazard to be displayed.  Powers of Incremental Improvements turns the light on one bulb at a time . Hazards are displayed as incidents, accidents or published in communication. Instant gratification is communicated in statements, findings or root cause analysis as a failure to initiate, perform or complete one specific task. Conclusive incident reports commonly state the root cause as a deliberate behavior failure to eliminate a task expected to be performed. Instant gratification root cause analyses communicate a gap in time, or a period when time ceased to exist, since a failure is an omission of a required action. When the omission of a task is