Gordie
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Phillips [SMTP:s.phillips_at_eagle.fste.ac.cowan.edu.au]
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 6:03 PM
To: crm-devel_at_db.erau.edu
Subject: re: CASE STUDY
Greg,
Perhaps because others in the 'airborne end of aviation' must
always operate in a crewed environment, thus they have to
develop "CRM" skills from the very beginning of their aviation
careers!!!!!!
It often seemed to me that there was more emphasis on
AIRMANSHIP in navigator training than there was/is in pilot
training. Maybe as a navigator I am biased; but I contend that
always working in a crew gives you a particular slant to how
you relate to those around you. Particularly when things start
to go bad or wrong.
Anyway just a thought.
Stephen J. Phillips
Lecturer in Aviation
School of Engineering
Edith Cowan University
Mt Lawley
PERTH 6050
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Ph 08 9370 6680
From: CRMDEEN <CRMDEEN_at_aol.com>, on 4/22/98 11:01 PM:
Howdee Gang,
As the discussions of "error management" wind down, which I thought were
excellent reading, incidentally, I thought I'd reveal the answer to my
challenge of last week.
A few pitched in their votes, and all were correct. The event was the
Titantic. The case study info I used was collected by Ssgt. Steve A. Curran,
a student of the CRM Facilitator Class I just conducted. He was reading two
books on the fateful voyage, and saw a very similar parallel in that event and
many of the aviation events we discuss in the class, especially in
organizational cultures that created the opportunity for error. The book
which helped him the most was "The Night Lives On" by Walter Lord. Steve,
incidentally, is not a pilot, nor a traditional "aviator". He is an Emergency
Medical Technition, serving the Air Force as a "med-tech" in an aero-medical
evacuation squadron.
I often wonder why the best students of CRM are not pilot-skilled. Any
ideas out there?
PS. We'll likely see Steve on the net soon, along with eight other new
"CRMer's". Say HI when they check in. Thanks.
Greg Deen
Raytheon