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>On 12/13/98 8:59 PM V. Mancuso wrote:
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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,
>>
>>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:
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>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.
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>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
>
To all,
The next to the last sentence should read "the way Reserve fighters do
business"!!
Spence