Crew Resource Management – What It Is & Insights for Safer Flying
Crew Resource Management, also known as Cockpit Resource Management, is a systematic approach to training that promotes non-technical skills, such as teamwork, communication, situational awareness and decision-making among crew members.
Unleash the Power of Motivational Leadership: Inspire Your Team to Greatness
A motivational leader is a leader who doesn’t just manage a team; they ignite a spark within each member, propelling them toward success. But how does one become one?
Training the Startle Response in Pilots: Harnessing the Body’s Alarm System
To ensure the highest level of safety, flight crews must master situational awareness to make swift decisions and respond appropriately to sudden critical events.
Situational Awareness – The Lifeline of Aviation: Thoughts on How to Approach It In Training
To ensure the highest level of safety, flight crews must master situational awareness to make swift decisions and respond appropriately to sudden critical events.
Assertiveness in Action: Transform Your Life with These Strategies to Be More Assertive
Do you often say yes when you want to say no? Do you struggle to express your opinions or stand up for yourself in difficult situations? If you’re sitting relentlessly trying to keep yourself from admitting it, knowing that you, in reality, should add a resentful nod, don’t worry – you’re far from the only […]
Unlocking Success: Why Emotional Intelligence Matters & Tactics to Train It
In a world where academic qualifications and technical skills take centre stage, we often forget to give closing credits to a character that plays a pivotal role in our professional and personal lives: Emotional Intelligence (EI) Also known as emotional quotient (EQ), EI is the ability to recognize, understand, manage, and effectively use emotions in […]
Changing Pilots’ Behaviour? How to Improve Behaviour-Based Safety Training
New to the world of behaviour-based safety training? Let’s start with the basics. What is behaviour-based safety training? Behaviour-based safety training involves adjusting behaviour to promote a safer operational culture. Admittedly, the name is sort of a spoiler alert. In behaviour-based safety training, we will have one of two goals. We either train to maintain a desirable […]
Pilot Fatigue: How We Can Deal With Fatigue in Training
Before diving headfirst into the dangers of pilot fatigue, we’ll start where most fall off. What is pilot fatigue? While we tend to nod when anyone mentions the word fatigue – do we really understand what it means to be fatigued? Visiting the coffee machine once or thrice, contemplating when you’ll see your beloved futon, […]
How Future Training in Questioning Techniques Can Enhance Flight Safety
Establishing effective communication is of paramount importance when it comes to enhancing flight safety. While we can easily spend a couple hundred pages detailing different communication styles, tactics, and theories, I’d like to direct your focus on a seemingly unusual factor – in the questions you ask. In this article, I will explore how different […]
Navigating the Future: Increasing Awareness of Automation in Aviation
In the ever-evolving world of aviation, technology has played a pivotal role in transforming the flight deck. Automation, in particular, has emerged as a powerful tool, enhancing safety, efficiency, and precision in aviation operations. So, why do crashes still happen? Automation is dramatically changing the relationship between pilots, planes, and the environment in which they […]