> Hi All,
> I am 747-400 captain and HF/CRM instructor for Asiana.
> In Korea the world culture means: OUR CULTURE, our historical culture,
> means
> the way how we treat people in every day of life. But in fact this is
> an
> EXCUSE for Korean pilots to adapt themself to an aviation culture. It
> is a
> way to to refuse to reach an international level of HF/CRM. As
> foreigner it
> is sometime very frustating. I do not give up, but I feel sorry.
> During the third ICAO World HF seminar at Auckland in 1996, I asked
> Porf.
> Robert Helmreich to consider to change the CULTURE into a may be:
> AVIATON
> CULTURE. He said it was not necessary, because every body understood
> what
> means culture.
> In many countries local pilots thinks CULTURE is the way to adapt the
> International way of flying into there own culture. The foreign pilots
> must
> adapt to the local culture. I feel sade about this because accidents
> still
> happens. Guam was again a very good exemple of a bad CULTURE and poor
> CRM
> understanding.
> Then If you find an other way to express the world CULTURE, you will
> be able
> to reduce the number of accidents and improve the CRM understanding in
>
> certain part of the world.
> All the best
> Jean-Claude
>
Hello Jean-Claude!
I am absolutely agree with you about redefining CULTURE into way
understandable for entire pilot's society. I Recently had encountered
this issue. I tried to make emphasis on some common for each pilot
basics things absorbed during old cadet years. I believe basic
airmanship would became the core to build training from. Then to develop
specific cockpit relationship. Sometimes two different cultures lead to
sad consequence because they cannot resolve empty thing. They might be
both great pilot but can't understand each other.
Konstantin.