We have developed a three day LOFT facilitator workshop. On the third day we discuss the guide lines that are used in scenario
design. As home work the fac. has written up an incident he has been involved in that he feels would be a useful training
experience for other pilots.
Guidelines include:
1) The human factor focus (we concentrate on two per LOFT eg. Communication process and decision -making).
2) Departure and possible destinations based on the option the crew takes.
3) Then add in environment of scenario (eg. weather, slippery runways etc.)
4) Technical malfunction if any (eg. loss of hydralics) indentifying if the problem can be resolved, if it is an intermittent, or
unclear malfunction, SOP or checklist item.(make sure that the simulator be programmed to reproduce malfunction)
5) This gives the facilatator an outline to work from. We then group the fac. into teams of two or three to discuss their
experiences and the scenario they have experienced. The team then chooses the best one to develop more fully.
6) Back in the plenary session we discuss the different scenarios that each team has developed. (this usually gives us about 6 -8
scenarios as there are 16 facilatators per course. We get and give feedback on modifications to the scenario and how effective we
feel each scenario would be from a human factors perspective (based on the two HF components that are focussed upon) and on a
technical basis. The best LOFTs are put in a data bank or if one fits in with our CRM/technical matrix for the next session we
fully script it.
Note : We try to give the crews at least three options to choose from. As the scenarios are based on line experience the workload
tends to be realistic.
Very early in the program we found that one of our checklists was being misinterpreted by many of our crews. This helped us get the
Standards Department behind the program.
I hope that this is the info you were looking for .
Cheers Norm