RE: The Magic Pill

John Wiley (jwiley_at_mindspring.com)
Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:50:00 -0400

At 12:56 PM 4/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Dave
> All the Dave's will get confusing but here is my input. Based on 10
>years of piloting experience, 4 years of flight instruction experience in
>the Navy and now 2 years of instructing in the space flight training
>business I do NOT believe there is a magic pill for CRM. A yearly briefing
>may heighten awareness of CRM. Without integrating and operationalizing the
>concepts of CRM, very few people will be able to transfer the training in
>the classroom to their daily work environment.
>
>Dave Rogers
>Guidance & Control/Propulsion Instructor
>Space Flight Training Division
>Johnson Space Center
>Houston, TX

I am going through a program to qualify as a check airman and part of the
program is to monitor a number of simulator sessions. This past week, we had
2 guys in the sim and, as with all sim courses, there is 3hrs of stuff to do
in 2hrs... so the pace has to be kept high to accomplish all the required
training.

These two guys are *contantly talking* and that seems to be active CRM.
Questions are presented (what altitude are we looking for next?... 2 miles
we descend to 2700, right?) and answered. Any time there is a question, both
pilots are verifying they are satisfied with the answer. This constant
conversation in a high workload area is not chit chat but all task relevant
and I was impressed.

Magic bullet? Nope but I think advising the crews to focus on the task at
hand and keep talking is a good start..

Wiley