Commercial Decision Making

Commercial Opns

• Need to focus on safety

• Decisions may not be popular

• Never base inflight decisions on how it will affect your career

Aeronautical Decision Making

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

Aeronautical Decision Making

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DECIDE Model

DECIDE Model

• Detect

DECIDE Model

• Detect That a change has occurred

DECIDE Model

• Detect

• Estimate

DECIDE Model

• Detect

• Estimate The need to counter or react to the change

DECIDE Model

• Detect

• Estimate

• Choose

DECIDE Model

• Detect

• Estimate

• Choose The desired outcome for the success of the flight

DECIDE Model

• Detect

• Estimate

• Choose

• Identify

DECIDE Model

• Detect

• Estimate

• Choose

• IdentifyActions which can successfully control the change

DECIDE Model

• Detect

• Estimate

• Choose

• Identify

• Do

DECIDE Model• Detect• Estimate• Choose• Identify• Do The necessary action to

adapt to the change

DECIDE Model• Detect

• Estimate

• Choose

• Identify

• Do

• Evaluate

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

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

Risk Management

Risk Management

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

Hazardous Attitudes

Hazardous Attitudes

• Anti-authority

Antidote

• Follow the rules. They are usually right.

Hazardous Attitudes

• Anti-authority

• Impulsive

Antidote

• Not so fast. Think first.

Hazardous Attitudes

• Anti-authority

• Impulsive

• Invulnerability

Antidote

• It could happen to me.

Hazardous Attitudes

• Anti-authority

• Impulsive

• Invulnerability

• Machoism

Antidote

• Taking chances is foolish.

Hazardous Attitudes

• Anti-authority

• Impulsive

• Invulnerability

• Machoism

• Resignation

Antidote

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

“Right Stuff”

“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

Stress Management

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.

Dangerous Tendencies• Peer Pressure

• Get-there itis

• Loss of positional or situational awareness

• Operating without adequate fuel reserves

PIC Responsibilities

• Flight Operation Manual

• Operations Specifications

• Crew Relationships

PIC Responsibilities• Communication

–Briefings

–duties PF PNF

–Checklist

–Sterile Cockpit Workload Management

PIC Responsibilities

• Planning

• Prioritizing

• Situation Awareness

• CFIT

Resource Use

• Internal Resources– IFR charts

– VFR charts

– Autopilot

– FO _____Flight Attendants

– other Crew Members

Resource Use• External Resources

– Dispatch personnel

– Maintenance technicians

– Baggage Handlers

– Gate personnel

– Flight Service Stations

– Controllers

CRM

• LOFT

• Line Oriented Flight Training

GA Accidents• Accidents Exposure

• Preflight/Taxi 3.5%

• Takeoff/Climb23.4% 2%

• Climb 3.3% 13%

• Cruise 15.7% 60%

GA Accidents• Accidents Exposure• Descent 2.6% 10%

• Maneuvering 13.0% 11%

• Approach 9.7% 3%

• Landing 24.1% 1%

Judgment

• Poor judgment chain