by Joe Godfrey | Nov 15, 2016 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
I’ll admit stealing the title from Stephen Jay Gould’s work on paleontology. I’m a big fan of his writing and he left us far too soon. So what’s the connection to engine data? It’s a stretch, and it’s not my area of study, but...
by Joe Godfrey | Oct 15, 2016 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Recently I was talking with fellow pilots about flight diversions – things that pop up in flight that would cause you to change your plans and make a precautionary landing. We covered the obvious examples like fire and engine failure, then added control failure,...
by Joe Godfrey | Sep 15, 2016 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Like millions of others, last week I saw Sully recently. If you’re a pilot, I don’t see how you avoid wondering what you would have done with a powerless airliner at 2800 feet and no good options. I’m not giving anything away to tell you that...
by Joe Godfrey | Aug 15, 2016 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
In case there was any doubt, this Puzzler is about mag checks. Specifically, it’s to introduce a new way to display the data from mag checks. For a while now, analysts have been doing this manually and now we have a button that automates the process. And we...
by Joe Godfrey | Jul 15, 2016 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Franklin P. Jones, a Philadelphia reporter, said that experience is what allows us to recognize a mistake when we make it again. That’s a mildly cynical approach, and the true value of experience should be to recognize the pattern that led to the previous...
