Rogue ?, Who ? Me ?

Hugo Oscar Leimann Patt (hleimann_at_houseware.com.ar)
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 15:40:32 -0300

Hi there,
endind a CRM seminar this week I took notice of an helicopter accident whose
principal protagonist was the very chief of the police aviation division. No
pilot wanted to be his copilot in that foggy night, but he was the boss...
Known by everyone, he was the most hot pilot in the squadron, but, no hand,
no brain, no nothing.
What could their subordinate do?
No followership technic was enough to restrain his brainless "operational"
decisions.

I humbly don't believe this a sort of wicht hunt, as some colleagues have
posted here in the forum.

We have a big problem out there.
I don't have the answer, but I'm sure there are a lot of LtCol Hollands out
there, perhaps very useful in wartimes (nevertheless in a little war we had
in 1982 -Malvinas/Falklands Island- this hypothesis was not confrimed at
all), but not in a commertial cockpit please.

This caracteropaths put at risk not just a single flight operaion, but are a
kind of cancer in the intimate tissue of the organization.
CRM "boomerangs", rogue pilots, will continue to challenge our imagination.

Knowing the bad prognosis of personality disorders, I would like to get ride
of them.
Hugo