Commercial Decision Making

1. Commercial Decision Making

2. Commercial Opns • Need to focus on safety • Decisions may not be popular • Never base inflight decisions on how it will affect your career

3. Aeronautical Decision Making

4. Aeronautical Decision Making • Systematic approach to the mental process used by pilots to consistently determine the best course of action in response to a given set of circumstances

5. Aeronautical Decision Making • Aeronautical Decision Making for Commercial Pilots 629.13252 N277c

6. DECIDE Model

7. DECIDE Model • Detect

8. DECIDE Model • Detect That a change has occurred

9. DECIDE Model • Detect • Estimate

10. DECIDE Model • Detect • Estimate The need to counter or react to the change

11. DECIDE Model • Detect • Estimate • Choose

12. DECIDE Model • Detect • Estimate • Choose The desired outcome for the success of the flight

13. DECIDE Model • Detect • Estimate • Choose • Identify

14. DECIDE Model • Detect • Estimate • Choose • Identify Actions which can successfully control the change

15. DECIDE Model • Detect • Estimate • Choose • Identify • Do

16. DECIDE Model • Detect • Estimate • Choose • Identify • Do The necessary action to adapt to the change

17. DECIDE Model • Detect • Estimate • Choose • Identify • Do • Evaluate

18. DECIDE Model • Detect • Estimate • Choose • Identify • Do • Evaluate The effect of the action

19. DECIDE Model • Detect That a change has occurred • Estimate The need to counter or react • Choose A desired outcome • Identify Actions that can control the Change • Do What necessary to adapt to change • Evaluate The effect of the action

20. Risk Management

21. Risk Management • Relies on situational awareness, problem recognition, and good judgment to reduce risks associated with each flight

22. Hazardous Attitudes

23. Hazardous Attitudes • Anti-authority

24. Antidote • Follow the rules. They are usually right.

25. Hazardous Attitudes • Anti-authority • Impulsive

26. Antidote • Not so fast. Think first.

27. Hazardous Attitudes • Anti-authority • Impulsive • Invulnerability

28. Antidote • It could happen to me.

29. Hazardous Attitudes • Anti-authority • Impulsive • Invulnerability • Machoism

30. Antidote • Taking chances is foolish.

31. Hazardous Attitudes • Anti-authority • Impulsive • Invulnerability • Machoism • Resignation

32. Antidote • I’m not helpless. I can make a difference.

33. “Right Stuff”

34. “Right Stuff” • The basic drive to demonstrate the “right stuff” can have an adverse effect on safety and can impose an unrealistic assessment of piloting skills under stressful conditions

35. Stress Management

36. Stress Management • Since many of the stress coping techniques practiced for life stress management are not usually practiced in flight, you must condition yourself to relax and think rationally when stress occurs.

37. Dangerous Tendencies • Peer Pressure • Get-there itis • Loss of positional or situational awareness • Operating without adequate fuel reserves

38. PIC Responsibilities • Flight Operation Manual • Operations Specifications • Crew Relationships

39. PIC Responsibilities • Communication • Briefings • duties PF PNF • Checklist • Sterile Cockpit Workload Management

40. PIC Responsibilities • Planning • Prioritizing • Situation Awareness • CFIT

41. Resource Use • Internal Resources • IFR charts • VFR charts • Autopilot • FO _____Flight Attendants • other Crew Members

42. Resource Use • External Resources • Dispatch personnel • Maintenance technicians • Baggage Handlers • Gate personnel • Flight Service Stations • Controllers

43. CRM • LOFT • Line Oriented Flight Training

44. GA Accidents • Accidents Exposure • Preflight/Taxi 3.5% • Takeoff/Climb 23.4% 2% • Climb 3.3% 13% • Cruise 15.7% 60%

45. GA Accidents • Accidents Exposure • Descent 2.6% 10% • Maneuvering 13.0% 11% • Approach 9.7% 3% • Landing 24.1% 1%

46. Judgment • Poor judgment chain