Facilitation and Debriefing in Aviation Training and Operations [Hardcover]

This practical guide is designed to enable individual pilots, training departments and airline managers to better understand and use the techniques of facilitation. Based on extensive field studies by the editors and invited contributors, it presents an easily accessible guide to the philosophy of facilitation combined with practical applications designed to improve training and flight operations. Illustrated with realistic examples from aviation settings, and specifically designed for aviation professionals, the applications include: * debriefing of training sessions * crew self-debriefing of line operations * analysis of problematic flight incidents * assisting crew members after traumatic events It will be essential reading for managers and instructors in airline training departments, flight training organizations, flight schools and researchers in flight training.Contents: What is facilitation and why use it?; Facilitating LOFT debriefings: a critical analysis; Facilitating LOS debriefings: synopsis of a training manual; Other applications of facilitation in aviation training; Effective crew debriefings in line operations; The mediated debrief of problem flights; Facilitating a critical incident stress debriefing; Appendix; Index.This is a practical guide that will help others incorporate facilitation in their tracing programs and in the analysis of operational incidents. It is based on the extensive field studies conducted by the editors and their invited contributors. The intended readership includes managers and instructors in airline training departments, flight training organizations, flight schools and researchers in flight training.R. Key Dismukes is chief scientist for Human Factors, NASA Ames Research Center, USA. He has published applied studies in human factors and fundamental research studies in neurobiology, managed research organizations and led committees of scientists reporting on science and public issues. Guy Smithl3C