Ethics in Aviation
Ethics plays a wide role in the Aviation industry. From the pilots, to crew members, maintenance personnel, TSA agents, safety inspectors, ramp agents and many more, each role has their own responsibility in keeping their professionalism and ethical mindset as their first priority. Ethics can be defined as " the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation ." (Merriam-Webster) I believe that anyone working in the Aviation industry, their ethics are built upon and created in the classroom. Anyone who works in the Aviation industry, or any industry works by a code and has a set of rules to follow. Ethics is not some kind of guideline or regulation that you are told to follow, they are your moral judgments and behavioral decisions that you make on the job. Patrick Benton in his article "Ethics in Aviation Education" does a great job summarizing what ethics means in aviation and how guiding the student to recog...