magnum 357?

hugo oscar leimann patt (hleimann_at_houseware.com.ar)
Sat, 28 Dec 1996 20:09:28 -0300

Hi CMRers;
Just ending an awareness seminar addressed to coast guard's pilots, with
good enough mood in the group to alow me to apply afterwards a computerized
sociogram we have developed to determine among other variables the
undesirable pilots in a reduced group (40 people). It was no surprise that
one oldtimer (again) appeared as very undesirable due to his rugh and
prepotent attitudes, nevertheless being an excellent stick and rudder pilot,
perhaps the very best.

In some group of pilots it is easy to identify unreachable, CRM immunized,
reluctant and omnisapiens individuals (otherwise fine people, that is to say
they don't have personality troubles matching any Axis II DSM-IV category).

I remember a simposium held four or five years ago in an AsMA meeting, when
a member of the panel possed this issue on the table. The opinions of the
other panelists on how to deal with this "Chuck Yeager Syndromes" in
multiple crew planes were from one extreme to the other, i.e. from to teach
other pilots how to deal with him, till a 357 Magnum.

I recall a similar case, the best Lear Jet pilot in Ushuaia (Tierra del
Fuego, the southest city of Argentina), no copilot wanted to fly with him.
Finally in a marginal weather approach, forcing minimums hit the water in
the procedure turn, killing the Governor and six secretaries of state.

Do any member of the crm community has ideas about what to do with these
individuals ?

Thanks

Hugo