Hello Gary (Sir),
I am a Major in the Air Force Reserves instructing USAF student pilots in
the T-38 trainer. I was involved with the group that rewrote the existing
AF Guidance on CRM as well as the team that shaped the training contract
for fighter CRM in the Air Force Reserves. Both the reg and the AFRC
contract were built using the skill-based approach as the foundation.
There are some excellent resources for the folks who are looking for info
on fighter CRM. In fact, the vice president of the company with whom the
US Air Force Reserves and the Air Guard contracts for fighter CRM support
(CTI) is a regular contributor to this forum. Spence are you there????
Spence and I spent 2 days with the Chief of Stan Eval for 10th Air Force
and his team of standards pilots crafting a list of fighter CRM skills.
The list is available in the resources section of the CRM developers web
site:
http://www. caar.db.erau.edu/crm/
I have not been involved with the development lately because my commercial
flying, reserve flying and consulting leave me no time to participate.
However, I will share what I know about the contract language and others
who are more familiar with the latest developments can fill in the blanks.
The CRM training done under this contract and guidance is unique because
it is not conducted as a separate event from the unit flying as most
classroom CRM program are. The contractor provides unit flight leads with
the tools they need to insert CRM skill objectives into daily mission
briefs and debriefs. The CRM training is not a separate event or course
but an integral component of daily flight briefs and debriefs. The tools
are made available to the squadrons by the contractor via the Internet on a
secure site. The tools used for daily reinforcement are further
supplemented with materials the contractor provides for unit safety
officers to brief during monthly or quarterly safety meetings. This whole
approach was built on the foundation of the skill list I mentioned above.
Feel free to download the document from the developers group web site and
adjust it to meet your requirements.
The Air Force CRM instruction (formerly a reg until we converted to
kinder-gentler guidance in the USAF) and the Air Force Reserve Command
supplement (Well worth reading if you are trying to administer a program
for a government agency) are available on the web. Maj. Ken Bauer (also a
regular contributor to this forum) is the Pentagon's keeper of the CRM
guidance and could provide the most accurate vector to the information and
the appropriate people. Ken and his global team of CRM folks meet once
each year. In fact, their annual working group met last week. Perhaps
the minutes are available for people like yourself who are working CRM for
military programs. I know for certain that Ken has been doing a lot of
work and coordination with the British Military so there is a precident for
exchange with other military agencies.
Finally, you may also want to use the CRM Developers Group search engine on
the home page to search through the discussion archive. There have been
some excellent exchanges on the topic of fighter CRM over the past couple
years. I find the best way to use the search engine is to find a couple
conversations related to your topic, identify what month they took place,
then look at the archive directory for that month. You can find the
archive directories at: http://www.caar.db.erau.edu/lists/
I hope this helps,
Maj. Vince Mancuso