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Situation awareness is quoted a lot of places.
And why not it is a good thing which we all strive to have. But I still haven't seen an perfect definition of it. We have the 4 pillars, we have the fancy bubble diagrams with a dark bit in the middle but all it really does is visualise a concept which to be honest varies depending what you are doing. You might be considered to have good Situation awareness in IMC in a radar controlled environment. But a pretty awful one when you hit the microlight in VMC in class G in procedural environment because you had your head down looking at the instruments which were spot on for what you were intending to do.
But taking first the FI course, there is ground school which again the term Situation awareness is used frequently. But how to teach it nope not there. Basic flying skills are meant to develop it but not out right teach it. Over a period of time it develops as experience is gained by the PPL and capacity is released from handling the aircraft. A big part of it is knowing what is coming next.
CRMI yes it is teaching you a form of situational awareness, that is how your classroom is interacting and you are being taught to facilitate the discussions to draw them towards certain facts and principles. In actual fact the CRMI course is open to all aircrew both cabin crew and pilots. I notice the comments about global have gone. But global is a group of talented cabin crew who are both instructors and examiners for the CRMI course. They just don't have any experience to teach aircrew situation awareness in the cockpit environment and that's not what the course is design to teach. During the course a TRI came in and did the statutory notechs lecture for the pilots. All the rest was done by cabin crew who have a highly developed situation awareness for if you can't dazzle them with brilliance you can baffle them with bull**** when it comes to facilitating a crm course and also the location of a decent glass of red wine (which personally as a Captain I think is distinctly lacking in some cabin crews training)
In airlines it is extremely common for cabin crew to run the yearly CRM courses. In fact I would say in the main they are better at it than the pilots with the same qualification. The only pilot only given courses are one day of the initial for pilots and the command crm course. So although the term situational awareness is used actually situational awareness isn't taught. Tools and methods of avoiding or recovering from a loose of Situation awareness is what its all about. See the threat, stop the threat.
In the main situational awareness is facilitated by SOP's and checklists in a multicrew environment, briefings are formalised, information is in a standard format and we train them to act in a certain, say certain things at particular times so that each bit of the flight is the same day in day out.
Doesn't stop pilots though smacking perfectly airworthy aircraft into the ground.
Now the core course. Is basically the principles of learning and the teaching/lecturing briefing style again its a course on how to instruct the practical items of flying a multicrew multiengine aircraft. SA isn't taught on a type rating flying the aircraft is you meant to have it as a CPL/IR holder already. If there isn't sufficient SA to safely operate the aircraft you fail. Short and sweet. They may allow further training to give you capacity flying the machine to allow you more capacity to be diverted to situational awareness but they don't teach it.
Not all pilots have the SA to be the Captain of a commercial aircraft, not all commercial pilots have the SA to be the Captain of a multicrew CAT aircraft. Not all Captains of CAT aircraft have the SA required to be line trainers.
If you could teach it there wouldn't be anyone failing flight tests and everyone would go into the LHS and everyone would be a line trainer.