Helicopter Pilots Visual Search Study Invitation
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Hi everyone,
My name is Nejc Sedlar, and I am a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen (UK). We are looking for helicopter pilots who are working within either HEMS (Air Ambulance), Military, Offshore Transport, or Search and Rescue (SAR) operations to take part in a 60-minute online interview study on information gathering during landings. The questions will focus on a number of aspects, including the steps involved in a landing manoeuvre, the information collected prior to arriving at a landing site, and the management of information with the co-pilot inside the cockpit. Additionally, the effect of landings in different locations/contexts will also be explored. The attached document provides further information about the project. If you wish to take part you can follow on the link to a Doodle poll that is available in the attached document. Through that you can book a specific timeslot that best suits your availability. Alternatively, you can also contact me through the forum, or email me at [email protected] and we can arrange the most suitable time for the interview. The project has been reviewed and approved by the University of Aberdeen Psychology Research Ethics Committee. Following the completion of the study, the resultant report and findings will be shared and made available to everyone. Thank you! |
If you're looking at information gathering on landing sites, it would be worth extending your information management section to include rearcrew - military helicopters extensively use rearcrew to observe and report information on landing sites prior to use.
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Originally Posted by pba_target
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If you're looking at information gathering on landing sites, it would be worth extending your information management section to include rearcrew - military helicopters extensively use rearcrew to observe and report information on landing sites prior to use.
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The questions will focus on a number of aspects, including the steps involved in a landing manoeuvre, the information collected prior to arriving at a landing site, and the management of information with the co-pilot inside the cockpit. Additionally, the effect of landings in different locations/contexts will also be explored |
It starts on pilot course with the Unknown Landing Sites lessons and the WOSSAT, or SWAT, checks.
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Originally Posted by 212man
(Post 11238329)
Without teaching grandma to suck eggs, I assume you know that the co-pilot can also be the handling pilot and conducts the landing? This can either be as a control exchange due to wind direction and deck orientation, or he could have been acting as the handling pilot throughout the flight, and the captain acting as PM (Pilot Monitoring). Similarly, the co-pilot could be the handling pilot for the flight but hand control to the captain for landing. There will also be very different processes for preparing for visual approaches compared to instrument approaches to an airport in controlled airspace.
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High Recon (Check Wind) , Low Recon (check of power available) while completing the 5 S check : “Size, Shape, Slope, Surface, Surroundings”
This allows you to decide on approach and departure path, where to land in the confined area ect. Lots of different names for the procedure but everyone is looking for the same information in order to form a viable plan. |
Originally Posted by albatross
(Post 11238550)
High Recon (Check Wind) , Low Recon (check of power available) while completing the 5 S check : “Size, Shape, Slope, Surface, Surroundings”
This allows you to decide on approach and departure path, where to land in the confined area ect. Lots of different names for the procedure but everyone is looking for the same information in order to form a viable plan. |
Size, Shape, Surroundings, Surface and Slope - you mostly do the last 2 in the hover as they are often difficult to assess from height. The first 3 allow to to make your plan of 'Can I get in?' followed by 'How will I get in?'
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Originally Posted by albatross
(Post 11238550)
High Recon (Check Wind) , Low Recon (check of power available) while completing the 5 S check : “Size, Shape, Slope, Surface, Surroundings”
This allows you to decide on approach and departure path, where to land in the confined area ect. Lots of different names for the procedure but everyone is looking for the same information in order to form a viable plan. |
Tried to get on this today - scheduled a call, nothing has happened.
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Originally Posted by [email protected]
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Tried to get on this today - scheduled a call, nothing has happened.
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All done Nejc - thanks, it was a very interesting experience, I can't believe I talked for an hour without realising it:ok:
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Originally Posted by [email protected]
(Post 11238990)
All done Nejc - thanks, it was a very interesting experience, I can't believe I talked for an hour without realising it:ok:
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Crab,typical QHI...:D
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Having just retired from 47 years of aviation, the last 23 of which was daily multiple landings at unprepared field locations in the Falklands, surely no one does a high recce, low recce, and runs through a list of a made up group of letters before landing, since the day they completed basic training?
If military you will be shot down, as a civil operator you have the time restraints of further tasks. It’s irrelevant who is actually hands on, any good crew have equal input to facilitate an expeditious and safe landing and take off. |
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Luckyrat - you are doing it automatically in your head on final approach generally, the 5'Ss is a good training tool - and there's not a lot of stuff to bump into in the Falklands- if you've been there for 23 years the whole place will be familiar and you will have made your decisions before you take off.
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Originally Posted by [email protected]
(Post 11239076)
Luckyrat - you are doing it automatically in your head on final approach generally, the 5'Ss is a good training tool - and there's not a lot of stuff to bump into in the Falklands- if you've been there for 23 years the whole place will be familiar and you will have made your decisions before you take off.
My 4 tours of Northern Ireland in the 70’s and 80’s, including flying as a single pilot from the black hangar in Aldergrove proved that! I’m not knocking the basics, however after landing on the backs of various of Her Majesty’s ships, to quote Tom Cruise……. “If you think you are dead” |
Anyone who is interested in helping people do research to make helicopter flying safer would do well to take part in this study.
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