TZD Initiative -Airside

I don’t know how many people are still flying that remember seeing Ken Patz and Verdon Kleimenhagen doing safety seminars throughout Minnesota. Probably more of you remember Mark Schreier, Steve Szymanski, Marlan Perhus and me making the circuit, but even that is more years back then I care to talk about. The point is we have a long history of trying to affect the aviation accident rate.

We have data that suggests that when we do safety seminars, we are preaching to the choir. People who attend have the right attitude about safety. They are not the ones having accidents.

Now that is not...