Autumn Wood

Although the thought of being able to fly to any destination is a wonderful thing, many communities were upset when airports were built in their area, and tourism kicked off. The reason? Noise pollution. Where once stood a quiet peaceful neighborhood, there is now loud aircrafts taking off and landing constantly to keep up with the traveling demands. In the 60's and 70's, when European travel became popular, town folk would rally up and protest against the airport. (Gallagher 2021). The new trend of coming to Europe caused the locals to have hearing problems, and sleep deprivation. As a manager at an airport, you have to deal with the complaints coming in from the locals, the lawsuits of hearing damage and sleep deprivation. That's why most airports around the world are working on finding ways to alleviate some of the problems caused by the airport travels. By limiting when and how many airplanes fly in and out and when constructing, being mindful of where runways are built...

      Human factors in aviation can be anything from a person's mental, emotional, and physical state. Also, their capabilities and limitations. AMT's face a unique set of human factors. This is because they're most likely working in a small place, early morning or late evenings. (FAA, 2018). With these working conditions, technicians and the managers have to be aware of the human factors listed above. A technician might be getting overworked. Just one problem, but it could lead to their mental, emotional, and physical state to deteriorate. If you add in the air-conditioning not working inside of the hot hangar bay in the middle of July in Nevada, you are going to have a lot of human errors occurring. Let's say a group of technicians are working on replacing an engine. They are having to stay over a few hours to get the job done. It's been 103 degrees outside during the day. The air-conditioning is out. Joey had promised his wife he wouldn't work late ...

This topic is a slight mix of my two careers. I went to Law Enforcement academy with police officers who work at Nashville airport, and we were able to get a sneak peek at the works of law enforcement there. TSA and the police have two different jobs, but they jobs are quite similar. The TSA and LEO's have K-9's that are all around the airport searching for drugs and bombs. The workers are also trained to look for suspicious people who will bring in parts of bombs and leave them past the TSA checkpoint for others to pick up and assemble. The security personnel are constantly training and running scenarios to stay ahead of outside threats and be prepared for anything. (TSA 2017). With all of the training and safety measures to prevent outside threats though, the most terrifying, and hardest to prevent is an inside threat. If you have an employee who is upset about something at work or is desperate for money, they will hand everything over to the wrong people in an instant. Or, y...