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From my perspective, this is one fundamental problem of CRM. The PIC is
the ultimate and final decision maker. The crew can give him the
options, but at the end of the day the decision is his. This difference
in responsibility and leadership does not lend itself easily to a
genuine team work, and that is what CRM is about. To treat them the same
way, will require a self managing team with no discriminating titles and
with equal responsibility. I don't think we are there yet.
Cheers,
Ibrahim
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Ibrahim,
If there is a CRM course that does not reinforce the very subject of your
message: "The Captain is still the Captain and his is the final decision!",
then the course misses the whole point of CRM. A team has to have a leader
and the Captain is the leader of the crew by corporate policy, aviation
regulations, and, in many cases, public law. The CRM program that misses or
downplays this point misleads their crews and sets them up for a multplicity
of disasters.
Dave Wilson
HTI