John Bent
At 09:34 PM 8/3/97 +1200, you wrote:
>John,
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>At 05:44 PM 1/08/97 +0800, you wrote:
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>>UNIFORM IN SIMULATORS
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>>A question regarding REALISM in an FFS in LOFT. How many airlines or
>flight training organisations out there require LOFT trainees to wear
>uniform? I know that British Airways does - any others?
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>>In terms of "power distance" the 4-gold bars on a more mature and seasoned
>Captaint can be seen as a resistor to easy communications from a new pilot
>in the right seat.
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>>John Bent
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>We at Air New Zealand require all our crew to wear uniforms for their CRM
>LOFT Sim exercises. There is some discussion within our Standards ranks as
>to its usefulness. The arguement is the same as yours in that it creates
>more barriers than it breaks down, but the flip side is that it subtely
>establishes the cockpit gradient, without it being too big a deal.
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>There are no formal plans to change.
>
>Chris Kriechbaum
>CRM Coordinator
>Air New Zealand
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