Where Birds Don't Fly

Every aviation system tasks come with one or more checklists attached, except for the safety management system (SMS). Manufacturing aircraft comes with checklists, operating an aircraft comes with checklists, designing an aerodrome comes with checklists, conducting an audit come with checklists, and applying for an airport certificate comes with checklists, but there are no checklists requirements to operate a safety management system.  There are several justifications for the use of checklists to operate one or multiple systems. A computer completes a checklist when starting up, and another checklist when shutting down, an autopilot performs checklist tasks prior to engage, and artificial intelligence performs compatibility checks prior to engagement. A baker uses a checklist in the form of recipes, and a clothing manufactures uses checklists in form of patterns. When completing trivial tasks such as opening a hangar door there are three tasks, open, stop and close, or when doing ...

The term mom-and-pop describes the small business entities that are independent or family-owned, usually operates in a single location and they provide personalized products and services to the local community. They operate with limited capital investment, they handle small business volumes and run with minimal numbers of employees. Typically, the shops are not franchised and only operate at single locations. Therefore, their customers are mostly from local communities, and products and services are more personalized. So, what does mom-and-pop stores have in common with an aviation safety management system (SMS)? What they have in common is that there is no value to their existence since they do not generate measurable short-term gain.  A safety management system does not provide accident-free security today, and mom-and-pop stores does not generate short-term savings today. A safety management system is process control of service provided, and a mom-and-pop store is process contro...