Re the recent discussion(s) on CFIT.
Seems we may be getting a little off track here? Certainly CFIT is a
topic of enormous interest (and concern) to all, but it's hard to
understand how CFIT seems to be classified as a cause of accidents.
Isn't it really a a RESULT, rather than a CAUSE, i.e., a manifestation
of one or many components of poor CRM?
Don't episodes of CFIT represent (graphically demonstrable) breakdowns
of good (effective?) CRM practices and procedures? The whole thrust of
CRM is the ongoing development of our awareness of our own FALLIBILITY,
i.e., that to avoid getting in to situations which the subsequent
investigation all too often reveals to us was in most cases totally
avoidable, we MUST begin to better understand Human Behaviour, develop
good Situational Awareness, become effective Communicators etc. Surely
the CFIT episode represents a breakdown in one or many of the factors
which go to make up effective CRM behaviour.
Shouldn't we be trying to understand that CFIT represents an accident
TYPE, rather than a CAUSE, i.e., in accordance with the Reason Model, in
most cases it's the outcome of an ACTIVE Failure rather than a LATENT
Failure? Effective CRM results from management support and understanding
of its aims, and therefore management's allocation of sufficient
resources to ensure that EFFECTIVE CRM Training is achieved for each and
every one of us!
Regards to all, Phil R