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Old 30th Jul 2014, 21:20
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tommoutrie
 
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By the way, the situation you describe is absolutely classic for generating difficult CRM situations. Trying to maintain VMC on a flight path probably followed by a visual approach and landing is the most difficult scenario for both pilots to share a mental model. There will be hundreds of tiny decisions taken by the handling pilot with regard to speed, descent rate, trajectory, other traffic, visibility, holes in the cloud, potential hazards, birds, engine failure options, the list is impossibly long, and it all happens far too quickly to communicate all those decisions to the other pilot before every decision is executed. How do you brief your visual approaches to each other? How do you assess in flight visibilty and proximity to clouds? Are you sharing the same techniques when you manage the energy for a visual approach? It's a very complicated scenario - far more so than the SOP, rule based environment that IFR jet flying is structured around. Good CRM is relatively easy when both blokes know exactly what's happening now, next, and what will happen if gates aren't met and limits are reached but stick those same two blokes in a cockpit and get them to fly a visual approach and you will always have differences in the debrief whether those differences be small or large. Which is another way you could approach this problem. Suggest before your flights that you briefly debrief every flight with each other. Not as an exception but as the rule. The flying you are doing is complicated and deserves it.
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