Now here is something to get one's teeth into :-)
Here are my questions
1. What is Captaincy?
2. What are the behaviours associated with Captaincy skills?
3. How does one train Captaincy/or how does one get Captaincy?
4. How does one assess Captaincy?
5. Is Captaincy being correctly integrated with CRM?
6. Could we just substitute the words *Decision Making* for Captaincy?
To try to get a handle on some of these issues we are putting a knowledge
elicitation package together which will try to elicit the contructs associated
with good versus bad Captaincy behaviours. It will be relatively simple to
administer and takes about 30-60 minutes of a respondant's time (depends on
how many separate contrstructs they generate). We will be administering this
instrument to CC-130 Hercules crews from our Air Transport Group. We will be
trying to obtain participation by the USAF, RAF, RAAF, and RNZAF too. Other
participation is welcomed. We will be interested to if if there are
differences in the perception of Captaincy between ACs, Co-pilots, Navigators,
Flight Engineers and possibly Loadmasters Ñ also how does experience effect
the perception? We are doing this because we believe that there are no clear
cut answers to the questions above. Are we wrong?
This process will achieve a number of goals (we hope)
¥ it will tell us what our crews think Captaincy is about and therefore
evaluates our current training methods,
¥ we are hoping it will identify the behaviours that distinguish good
Captains from less good Captains, and
¥ from this we hope to get the framework for a revised training system.
Keith Hendy
DCIEM, North York, Canada
kch_at_dciem.dnd.ca
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I have two questions to the group, each of these came to me from some Air
Force clients:
In addition to the symposium at OSU, are there any other symposiums scheduled
during the year for topics of CRM, Human Factors, Accident Investigation, or
Physiology?
The topic is "aircraft commandership, or captaincy":
Does anyone have some solid teaching techniques to train this
phenomena to PIC candidates. An individual who tries to do this training is
facing students who want him to give simple "input-output" solutions to the
task of decision-making. The students don't want to accept the instructor's
answer that sometimes, there is no simple "black and white" answer to the
dilemmas PICs face.
The normal class consists of co-pilots who are upgrading to PIC,
and previous PICs who have been away from the aircraft for awile, and some
who are transistioning from one type to another.
I thought this would be a good topic to pass around: how do you train PIC
candidates to make proper decisions?