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>>As the new guy on the block I am highly interested in this topic of
>disucssion. I head up the flight safety team in 1 Canadian Air Division
>Headquarters. I am intent on implementing a CRM programme for our fighter
>force and would be interested in sharing thoughts, concepts or "trade
>secrets"! I can be contacted at garlic_at_pangea.ca or
>ghook_at_vulcuan.achq.dnd.ca
>LCol Gary T. Hook, 1 Canadian Air Division Flight Safety
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>Hello Gary (Sir),
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>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.
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>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:
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>http://www. caar.db.erau.edu/crm/
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>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.
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>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.
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>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/
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>I hope this helps,
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>Maj. Vince Mancuso
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Dear Vince and others,
Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated...wait, didn't somebody
say something similar to that once before??!!
Seriously, I've spoken with Gary off line about some of the specifics
of what we're doing with the Guard and Reserve. I do feel that the
Reserve (single seat tactical aircraft) meeting you mentioned had
particular significance to everyone in the CRM-developers group because
of the following:
1) The current Stan/Eval pilots (read Check Airmen) were not part of the
final approval process for the training (due to transfers, departure to
the airlines, etc.) although SEFE/IPs were a significant part of the
initial development stages. This resulted in a marked lack of support
from the group that MUST be the primary advocates for a CRM (or any)
training program. Including them in the redirect from 10th Air Force
helped achieve a tremendous amount of buy-in to the need and the process.
2) The skills to be delivered to the Reserve pilots were consolidated
into related groupings that are presented by the Stan/IPs as Special
Interest Items (SIIs) {their idea}. This means that the SII is a part of
regular mission prep execution and debrief evolutions, which continuously
reinforces the learning objectives of the training. New pilots see the
most experienced pilots using the skills on a regular basis (Good/Bad
scale rating of Very Good). It also means CRM is divided into "bite size
pieces" that allow it to be more palatable to a group that is already
stretched very thin with decreasing resources and additional global
mission obligations. Web-based support provides a continuous source of
additional information for those that want or need it.
Lesson learned...Your organization may require you to tackle CRM with a
true "how can we make this work?" approach. Many of the conventional
solutions to CRM delivery were discarded in an effort to find one that
would really become part of the way Guard fighters do business. It's
still early, but it looks like it's working!
Spence