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  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › RISK › Situational Awareness

    Monitoring radio communications for traffic, weather discussion, and ATC communication can enhance situational awareness by helping the pilot develop a mental picture of what is happening. Maintaining situational awareness requires an understanding of the relative significance of all flight related ... added an additional burden to his or her management in the event of an emergency. To maintain situational awareness, all of the skills involved in ADM are used. Obstacles to Maintaining Situational Awareness Fatigue, stress, and work overload can cause…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Information Management › Enhanced Situational Awareness

    Enhanced Situational Awareness An advanced avionics aircraft offers increased safety with enhanced situational awareness. Although aircraft flight manuals (AFM) explicitly prohibit using the moving map, topography, terrain awareness, traffic, and weather datalink displays as the primary data source, these tools ... nonetheless give the pilot unprecedented information for enhanced situational awareness. Without a well-planned information management strategy, these tools also make it easy for an unwary pilot to slide into the complacent role of passenger in command. Consider the pilot…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › RISK › Crew Resource Management (CRM) and Single-Pilot Resource Management

    includes the concepts of ADM, risk management (RM), task management (TM), automation management (AM), controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) awareness, and situational awareness (SA). SRM training helps the pilot maintain situational awareness by managing the automation and associated aircraft control…

  • Chapter 6: Threat and Error Management › Defenses Provided by the Pilot or Crew › Time Management

    briefings, each pilot should agree on the plan of action, ask for clarification, and question any inconsistency. Effective Situational Awareness Situational awareness may include knowing: • Aircraft position • Flight Path • Status of other aircraft in the area • Status of the environment ... Human factors in play Planning for What Comes Next Situational awareness allows the pilot to plan for what will happen next and to stay ahead of the aircraft. A forward-looking plan also provides for early detection of any deviation…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Situational Awareness › Managing Risks

    When a pilot becomes task saturated, there is no awareness of input from various sources, so decisions may be made on incomplete information and the possibility of error increases. [Figure 2-20] When a work overload situation exists, a pilot…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Situational Awareness › Workload Management

    pilot may begin to focus on one item. When a pilot becomes task saturated, there is no awareness of input from various sources, so decisions may be made on incomplete information and the possibility of error increases. [Figure…