Hello Flyblu,
I was starting seminaries, soon after I became instuctor, but then the company went to bankrupt...
It is quite difficult to start in a new company, old dinasaurs don' t want to move
and I would like to do it also free of salary, as I used to do in my previous airline (from easy things as to translate and act incident/accident due to poor CRM, to power point presentation to illustrate "shell theory", to instruct "diplomatically" on board whit my cabin crew, pushig them to ask, explain even to the Captain, if it was needed).
Unluckily, in the place I live, CRM is not so much considered -even betwen pilots- and cockpit/cabin crew sessions are something considered useless and a waste of time......
Some people cannot see beyond his own nose!
Even if flying is my favourite job...well, I'm gonna search in other structures (hopitals, nurses, firefighter and go on...)
The fact is that now companies avoid corporate adviser (they cost too much).
Finally, unluckily people don't give the right importance to communication, the hierarchy is still dominant, expecially now, with reinforced doors and marshalls on lot of flights!
Think that with JAA it is mandatory for ALL aircraft crews, but the reality -expecially with the boom of low cost companies- is quite different.
Here I go off topic, but it sems that this is happening also with security searches, contols during the flight, lack of briefing/debreifing, all to try to take-off on time (
) and save the most fuel possible!
I know many pilots allover the world, and someone don't even know what CRM/HF means!!!!!!
The first aircraft I flew, was an ATR42, so my is an old school
but I remember that they encouraged crew communication, also because cabin crew jump seat is in the tail, then there are passengers, the cargo and finally the cockpit....they taught us how to deal even with rotors, following refuelling (not with pax on board
) in order to be able to take the command in the event of an emergency to order an evacuation, in case both pilots were not fit to do it.
I noticed that during basic courses to become cabin crew (I know 'cos I made lot of interviews, being one of the grandmas of the company....they simply bypass it, waiting up to two years, to mention CRM in a single morning session....: no one can understand the REAL meaning of team-work without at least some basic notions of CRM...they simply manage theirselves as single ones!
In my father's era (747Captain from1962 to 2000) CRM lasted 6 days, no contacts with outside, no wives to see them...long and hard, but it did work!!! They learnt how to deal in aircraft, as much as in private relations.
Hope, really, things will change....and I wouldn't like too hear about a plane falling down for lack of communication!
