What about waiting 2 years for his retirement? :-)
Hi dear Gang,
We had an intense discusion on this issue in August 14-24, 1997; remember?
CRM is not a solution for single individuals detected as requiring some
behavioral fixing.
But, why are this individuals reluctant or refractory to CRM phylosophy?, is
it enough with acrostics and self check lists?, how many seminars and loft
sessions are needed to change their dangerous behavior? CRM is the best
context to self examine and insight, but have these individuals enought
insight capacity? Has peer pressure demonstrate efficiency to deal with them?
When you are in front of a characteropathic individual, you are dealing with
a person unable to make any kind of insight. They believe that they are the
"best pilots they ever saw" (remember The Right Stuff and the Chuck Yeager
Syndrome?, also Maverik's Top Gun Syndrome), in some cases they are pilot
with a hidden and subconscious aprehention to fly, that generate a lot of
trouble in their cockpits with their intolerant and absurd behaviors.
I agree with the importance of a good selection process proposed by Guy, but
in these cases it is too late, and an "aeronautical maladaptive syndrome"
(Aviat.Space Environ. Med., 1988, p.955-9) may be developed after a good
selection process anyway.
In our country when such a pilot is detected, the certification board is
alerted and eventually when the pilot comes to his/her annual medical exam,
or in the ocasion of a post-accident/incident exam, he/she is grounded and
psychoterapeutic treatment recomended.
But when the rogue pilot is the operation manager of the company, then you
are in a big problem (we had suffered it).
In that case perhaps the Bob Helmreich solution for boomerang pilots is the
only way out.
Greetings from Buenos Aires.
Lt.Col. Hugo Oscar Leimann Patt, M.D., Ph.D.
Argentine Aviation Authority and Air Force CRM Developer
Chief Medical Certification Board
National Institute for Aviation Medicine
Buenos Aires
Argentina
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