Master Airline Pilot: Applying Human Factors to Reach Peak Performance and Operational Resilience [Paperback]

Master Airline Pilot offers a process for improving pilots skills in risk management, situational awareness building, decision making, communications, and crew management. It links aviation human factors with practical airline operations to promote the development of master-level aviation skills across the full range of pilot experience.

Master Airline Pilot offers a process for improving pilots skills in risk management, situational awareness building, decision making, communications, and crew management. It links aviation human factors with practical airline operations to promote the development of master-level aviation skills across the full range of pilot experience.

Serving as a practical guide for operational aviation challenges, the book discusses exceptional events such as operations under marginal condition, intervening to interdict an unsafe operation, and resolving crew conflicts. It also provides techniques for handling more common airline flying challenges like delays, holding, diverting, and continuing versus aborting a deteriorating game plan.

The book is intended for airline pilots, training captains, simulator instructors, and aviation students taking courses in flight safety and crew management to improve their skillset, proficiency, and expertise toward peak performance.

1. The Master Class of Pilots. Section I Introduction to Core Concepts. 2. Risk Management. 3. Complexity. 4. Decision Making. 5. Situational Awareness. 6. Error. 7. Distraction. 8. Safety. 9. Time. Section II Introduction to Techniques. 10. Risk Management Techniques. 11. Decision-Making Techniques. 12. Techniques for Building Situational Awareness. 13. Time Management Techniques. 14. Workload Management Techniques. 15. Distraction Management Techniques. 16. Automation Management Techniques. 17. Communications Techniques. 18. CRM Techniques. 19. PM Role Breakdowns, Callouts, anls$