>The USAF Fighter Resource Management Skills outlined and included in the
referenced article ARE NOT "Fighter" specific skills. The six behaviors
listed are the six core behaviors being considered by the USAF for the CRM
training of ALL USAF pilots, flight crews, and mission crews.
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Gordon, you are partially correct. The six core categories highlighted in
the "Fighter Resource Management (FRM)" skills posting to the developer's
web site are the six in the final draft of USAF CRM Instruction. The Air
Force instruction (AFI) does indeed apply to all crews. If you look at my
culture posting around the 2nd of December, you will get a good look at how
the the generic AFI CRM skills is shaping up.
Under the guidance in the new AFI, the primary officer in charge of the
specific mission delivery system (MDS) or the Major command can get a
mission specific list approved by the Pentagon. The list that was posted
to the web site is one of the first proposed mission specific lists. The
effort to create this list was led the Colonel in charge of 10th Air Force
Stan/eval (overseeing primarily F-16's and A-10's). As you know 10th Air
Force had both competing contractors (MEI and CTI) present their program to
the pilots at Luke AFB. From this head to head contractor comparison, they
selected a contractor and identified many opportunities to improve the
existing delivery content and methods. They felt strongly enough about
the need for clear fighter specific CRM expectations that they held a 2 day
conference the next month to develop the skills list. They also identified
several opportunities to improve the delivery methods. They also
identified an appropriate contractor role for supporting materials that
flight leads (or aircraft commanders) could use reinforce CRM skills during
normal continuation training missions. The conference was attended by a
unit stan eval pilot from each 10th AF unit.
While much of the fighter skills list is transferrable to other missions,
it does have a fighter specific orientation with references to wing/lead,
etc. Other fighter MDS POCs will very likely find this list useful and
adopt it as their mission specific CRM skills list. Other MDS's may use it
as the starting point for their own mission specific list. Others will
find the skills list in the soon-to-be-released AFI perfectly appropriate.
If anyone is interested in how to conduct one of these focus group sessions
to derive a mission specific list, I would be happy to share my lessons
learned with them. I have led and/or participated in several CRM skill
development focus group sessions including the one from which the 10th Air
Force list was derived. I believe that this is an effective method for
deriving CRM skills for any crew position or mission. There are some
definite techniques for getting the most out of these meetings.
I hope this clears up why the list was posted as a fighter skills list.
Vince Mancuso