What Ethics Means to Me

  One piece of legislation that came out that I feel was an important step into modern day delivery services using air is the Air Mail Act of 1925.  When this piece of legislation became a law, what it did was give the United States Postal Service higher private contractors to deliver mail rather than government appointed aircraft, which at the time was scarce and inconsistent.  The Act was brought forth by a congressman named Clyde Kelly who explained, "the Act permits the expansion of the air mail service without burden upon the taxpayers(Matignon, 2019) .   Although this Act went through many amendments, it paved the way for modern day commercial air travel.   Although it went through many amendments, like the Air Mail Act of 1926 and Air Commerce Act, it still opened the doors for basic private contracting for packages.  This is still carried on today as certain bigger corporations charter packages all over the world.  Sometimes DHL will car...

    When it comes to aviation maintenace i feel the biggest human factors are complacency or invulnerabilty.  Whether it is task, organizational, or stress/fatigue induced complacency it all lead to maintaners not being 100% there when doing a job.  In maintenance you can see some people are just going about the job and lacking all situational awareness and seem to forget that they are actually in a dangerous proffesion.  They get this very relaxed, carefree attitude towards the work they are doing which can become impressionable to newer workers.      When it comes to team activities and have complacency amount the team, it causes inadequate work and none trustworthy work.  It can also lead to dangerous situations that can cause damage to aircraft or injury to personnel.  The team activity that comes to mine is engine removals from aircraft.  Sometimes they can seem very teddious and workers could get complacent.  It is w...

 Ever since 9/11 the TSA portion of the federal government has stepped up in many areas.  From random screenings to updated security measures at airports and a new standard of boarding planes, 9/11 changed everything.  One thing in particular, that is included in the layers of security, is the Federal Air Marshal Service.  An interview done by business insider wrote  The U.S. had just 33 air marshals working in a full time capacity on 9/11..."(C. Biles, December 2013).  Know, there are roughly 3,300 air marshals with only 2/3 actually full time while the others are still in training. The Air Marshal service could mitigate almost all threats with proper training since they are actually on the flights and observing everything going on.  They are the last resort and what I consider the fire extinguisher of the sky.  By that I mean id rather have it and not need it then need it and not have it.  With that being said i feel that the FAA marsh...