Re: Rogue ?, Who ? Me ?
John Wiley (jwiley_at_atl.mindspring.com)
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 21:55:54 -0400
At 03:40 PM 8/22/97 -0300, you wrote:
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>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.
>
>
>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.
True, there are some guys out there who no amount of followship will work
with..but as one old guy once told me, "Do what you can to stick to
procedures....be nice and be tactful...but remember one thing...never let
the SOB kill you....
I know one or two guys who told a "wild and crazy guy", "Do that once more
and you are without a F/O". They were asked if they knew what they were
doing and they replied, "Do you know you're no where near procedure?"
One was able to get his point across and finished the trip. One other got on
the ground, called the chief pilot and said, "Get another pilot... and pull
the tapes..I ain't flying with this SOB again."
Don't be tactful to the point of getting dead.....