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You can’t know what was prevented due to the copilot being present. This is the problem. Nobody appreciates the value of the unbroken window. I’m willing to bet
by jwie 4y ago
You can’t know what was prevented due to the copilot being present. This is the problem. Nobody appreciates the value of the unbroken window. I’m willing to bet a horrifyingly large amount of value exists in a human copilot.
They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but companies never allocate resources as if that were true.
If prevention becomes a cost center, some jackass is going to try to cut it. They couldn’t measure the prevention. It was just another line item on the wrong side of a ledger.
- jeffrallen 4y agoThe entire practice of CRM (crew resources management) exists because of the value of the second human. It is a formal mechanism to recognize that multiple minds, looking at the same input, might diagnose different problems and that the sum of those opinions is more valuable than one alone.
- wanderingmoose 4y agoDuring any incident, the current CRM is one pilot flies the plane while the non-flying pilot runs the check lists. I hope the single pilot is good at multi-tasking. (* I am not a commercial pilot but I've watched enough Mayday/Air Accident Investigations to get interested in the FAA publications on CRM. Interesting read. Active work was being done ~20 years ago in this area.)