I have been following all the topics in this group since the beginning of
this year, and find them very interesting, and most, if not all of these
good ideas are implemented between crew members in todays cockpits, I am
sure that the result would be a very more relaxed environment, in which
accidents are less prone to happen due to the reduction of the fear to speak
out and point out discrepancies, and the reduction of miss communication
between crew members.
But unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world, in which every thing
happens over night. What I am leading to here is the following,
Most airlines today have CRM programs in which all cockpit crew members ,new
and old, must under-go before, and during assignments. But the concept of
CRM is fairly new and not that old.
How is CRM suppose to work when you have a situation in which the captain
has been flying for the past 35-40 years, coming up to retirement, and the
idea of CRM is not all that significant to him, in comparisons to a first
officer or a flight engineer, whom has been newly assigned to their jobs,
and the concept of CRM has been drilled into there heads in training since
day zero.
I do realize that senior captains also do under go CRM courses, but how far
do they go in implementing the idea of CRM in reality, when flying with the
new generation pilots, is a different case. Mainly to the fact that they
have flown all their 20,000 and 30,000 hours, with out CRM, and survived,
and why are they suppose to do it any different way now.
How would this affect the rest of the crew members, if all the captains they
fly with do not use and in force the ideas of CRM to the fullest extent.
Would the result as time passes reduce the beleaf of CRM in the FO's and FE's ?
So is teaching an old dog a new trick in this case hard and would it have a
chain reaction along the rest of the seats up front in the sharp pointed
edge of the fuselage?