How Pilots Live

Simon Bennett has a Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration from Sheffield City Polytechnic, a Masters in Communication and Technology and a PhD in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge from Brunel University, London. He has taught risk management at the University of Leicester for seventeen years. He works as a consultant to the aviation industry where he specialises in flight-deck human factors (teamwork, communication, leadership, morale, hierarchy, stress, fatigue, etc.). He has published in numerous academic journals and aviation periodicals. His books include Human Error – by Design?, A Sociology of Commercial Flight Crew, After Hubris, Nemesis: Why Flag Carriers Fail and Innovative Thinking in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management. Before entering academia the author managed an IT department in London.

• Contents: The Realpolitik of Commercial Aviation – Diarising Our Lives – Quantitative and Qualitative – The Lived Reality of Commercial Flying – What Have We Learned?

«I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand what our ‘glamorous’ way of life is really like; to the regulators and politicians who dictate the rules; and to any aspiring young hopefuls wanting to join what was once a fulfilling career.» (Mike Buckley, The Log, Summer 2014)