This multi tasking malarky that is being thrown around is nothing but a myth. We can do many things at the same time, but we simply cannot multitask to the extent that we believe the term 'multitasking' means, simple.
If we look at this incident in simple chunks, cheese slices if you will, it becomes clearer bit by bit. For starters, as Bob says, it's pretty clear that if the mobile phone texting wasn't going on, Pete would have continued back to Redhill.
Future CRM courses will be pulling this to bits and picking every single one of the multiple times where this incident could have been prevented. Just to make it clear, not everyone of them directly involves Pete.
Yes we can learn from this and learn a lot, however not until people pull their heads out of the sand and realise that CRM involves single piloted aircraft as much as multi piloted aircraft, will we fully appreciate the lessons we are presented with and can learn from. Until then, these mistakes will be repeated.
The days of the term 'Single Pilot CRM' being greeted with contempt, must be relegated to the dim and distant past.
Doesn't this all sound oh so familiar?
http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/458...ml#post7196857
http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/446...ml#post6318274
http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/416...ml#post5721442