Re: Training effectiveness
CharlieRU_at_aol.com
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:26:39 EDT
Greg,
Case studies, which are usually smoke and fire stories, only receive a
minimum reaction. Audience members will usually do a mental fix to distance
themselves from such incidents. Imagined fear of events that have disaterous
results is difficult to measure. Experience aircrew, go into benn there done
that, junior members file away an expectation of things to come, and new hires
totally detach, they are still busy learning systems and procedures. Smoke
and fire, in my opinion, usually ends up with a bunch on monday morniung
quarterbacking that finds a more perfect solution in yet more technical what
if's. It's difficult to impossible to seperate the airplane from the aviator.
Aviator here means the person who keeps looking for the correct solution in a
glass panel. improved procedure or redesigned equipment. When the real long
term solution is look within oneself and to other crew members.
The resource yet untapped totally. Like you I hear numerous stories about
good CRM inwhich difficult situation were handled expertly. These don't make
headlines or mishap sdtats, when I pass them on to other folks they go ho-hum,
any crew would have done the same. I retort. No they don't. Case studies are
useful to a limited degree.
Charlie Russell