Communication for Safety: Aviation Leadership with Captain Gina Longo
In this episode, we dive into aviation with Gina Longo from North Carolina, exploring her unique transition from an Airline Captain to Aviation Leadership Trainer. We discuss how her early passion for horses and practical advice from her father guided her into aviation, the challenges and insights she gained from her time training pilots in the UK, and her unconventional three-year adventure across the UK in a caravan with her German shepherds. Gina also shares how these experiences shaped her approach to leadership and her current work in the field.
Gina shares compelling stories illustrating the critical role of communication in aviation safety. She recounts a challenging night flight where poor communication led to a stressful and unstable approach to a landing, emphasizing the need for timely updates and assertiveness. In contrast, Gina also highlights a successful landing at another airport, where clear and effective communication prevented a potential disaster, showcasing how adhering to procedures and explaining decisions can enhance safety and build trust. These examples underline how good and bad communication can significantly impact safety and leadership in high-stakes environments.
About Gina Longo:
Gina Longo Aviation Leadership Trainer at Trigpoint Systems, LLC, is a former airline captain and flight instructor who flew as pilot in command on some 2,500 flights and carried around 75,000 people (and many pets!) safely to their destinations.
Gina is committed to making aviation even safer, so if you were to ask her what she does, her answer would be, "What I do is what I believe."
And as the founder of a specialist boutique leadership training firm, what she believes is in helping aviation leaders communicate clearly and make common-sense decisions that put safety first, because poor communication and poor leadership should never again be the cause of an accident.
Her great love is German Shepherds, and as a proud U.S. Air Force brat, she tends to answer the question "Where are you from?" with an enigmatic "It depends."
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