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• Helicopter Flying Handbookp. 13-4
  Chapter 13: Effective Aeronautical Decision-Making › Aeronautical Decision-Making (ADM) › The Decision-Making Process

  Decision-Making Process An understanding of the decision-making process provides a pilot with a foundation for developing ADM skills. Some situations, such as engine failures, require a pilot to respond immediately using established procedures with little time for detailed ... analysis. Called automatic decision-making, it is based upon training, experience, and recognition. Traditionally, pilots have been well trained to react to emergencies, but are not as well prepared to make decisions that require a more reflective response when greater…

• Risk Management Handbookp. 7-4
  Chapter 8: Aeronautical Decision-Making in Flight › Analytical Decision-Making

  While an autopilot is engaged, a pilot’s attention should not disengage. Pilots need to maintain situational awareness and appropriate focus on the progress of the flight at all times. Balancing the use of automation with manual flying skills ... necessary in case a particular situation requires pilot intervention. Using automation proficiently and at the appropriate level reduces risk and helps prevent incidents and accidents. Chapter 8: Aeronautical Decision-Making in Flight Introduction ADM Background Analytical Decision-Making Introduction This…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 2-15
  Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › The Decision-Making Process › The Programming

  capabilities are in response to last minute changes of the approach (and the reprogramming required) and ability to make large-scale changes (a reroute for instance) while hand flying the aircraft. Since formats are not standardized, simply moving from ... flight, the pilot should review and consider the “Plan, the Plane, the Pilot, the Passengers, and the Programming” and make the appropriate decision required by the current situation. It is often said that failure to make a decision…

• Helicopter Flying Handbookp. 13-4
  Chapter 13: Effective Aeronautical Decision-Making › Aeronautical Decision-Making (ADM) › Implementing the Decision and Evaluating the Outcome

  appear that she would be able to terminate the approach in a hover. The pilot decided to make the shallowest approach possible and perform a run-on landing. Pilots sometimes have trouble not because of deficient basic skills or system ... knowledge, but because of faulty decision-making skills. Although aeronautical decisions may appear to be simple or routine, each individual decision in aviation often defines the options available for the next decision the pilot must make, and the options (good…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 2-13
  Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › The Decision-Making Process › The 5 Ps Check

  first decision point is preflight in the flight planning room, where all the information is readily available to make a sound decision, and where communication and Fixed Base Operator (FBO) services are readily available to make alternate travel plans ... second easiest point in the flight to make a critical safety decision is just prior to takeoff. Few pilots have ever had to make an “emergency takeoff.” While the point of the 5P check is to help the pilot…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 2-21
  Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Decision-Making in a Dynamic Environment › Operational Pitfalls

  Experts appear to make provisional sense of a situation, without actually reaching a decision, by launching experience-based actions that in turn trigger creative revisions. This is a reflexive type of decision-making anchored in training and experience ... most often used in times of emergencies when there is no time to practice analytical decision-making. Naturalistic or automatic decision-making improves with training and experience, and a pilot will find himself or herself using a combination of decision…