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>At 08:06 PM 7/07/98 +1200, you wrote:
>>a 58 year old Captain, with a history of denial of his
>>own problem, inability to work well with his peers, but sufficiently smart
>>to say and do the right things when training hurdles are created for him?
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>What about waiting 2 years for his retirement? :-)
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>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?
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Greetings from Buenos Aires.
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>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
>Tel Office:(541)778-0353, Fax Office: (541) 778-0352
>Home Tel/Fax: (541)552-4266
>hleimann_at_house.com.ar
>http://www.house.com.ar/users/hf_crm
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