Controlling Pilot Error: Culture, Environment, and CRM (Crew Resource Management) [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Anthony T. Kern (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 7, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0071373624 | ISBN-13: 978-0071373623 | Edition: 1

Expert authors demonstrate the topic using pilot drawn from an FAA/NASA sponsored database. A post-mortem of real-life, real-pilot accidents are examined to explain what went wrong and why. An action agenda is drawn of preventive techniques pilots can effect to avoid the same risks.

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From the Back Cover

REDUCE THE TERROR OF PILOT ERROR

The most effective aviation safety tools ever, Controlling Pilot Error guides give you expert protection against the causes of up to 80% of aviation accidents—pilot mistakes. Each title provides:
• Real-life pilot stories
• Valuable “save-yourself” techniques and safety tips
• Clear and concise analysis of error sets

Controlling Pilot Error CULTURE, ENVIRONMENT, AND CRM

Pilot decision making is impacted by many influences.

A knowledge of recent discoveries on aviators’ decisions and crew cockpit interactions during crisis is important to all pilots. Tony Kern’s Culture, Environment, and CRM confronts the human factors behind most aviation mishaps. Applying scientific explanations to allow you to:
• Recognize the psychological booby traps that imperil lives
• Put firewalls between you and the human factors that doom flights
• Improve priceless pilot judgement skills with proven techniques
• Adopt a simple four-step backup plan for flight-critical decisions
• Apply the lifesaving CRM loop process and specific tested CRM tools and techniques for safer flying
• Learn why followership is as essential to good decision making as leadership
• Discover why, though human failing is inevitable, it need not be fatal

BEST FOR PILOTS

• Build your knowledge base
• Increase your confidence
• Sharpen your skills
• Learn lifesaving tips

Tony Kern is Editor of the Controlling Pilot Error Series and a former lieutenant colonel who created the United States Air Force’s human-factors training program. He also wrote three best-selling books on aviation for McGraw-Hill.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 210 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (June 7, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071373624
• ISBN-13: 978-0071373623
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #905,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't take your passengers with you., August 17, 2001

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Doug B. (Bellevue, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Controlling Pilot Error: Culture, Environment, and CRM (Crew Resource Management) (Paperback)

This book is a good wake-up call to the dangers pilots put there passengers, and those on the ground, in by thinking they can do it all by themselves. It has the usual war stories of "There is was upside down at 20,000 feet..." but integrates a good overview of CRM into the discission and lets you see for yourself how effective CRM could have prevented all the accidents, incidents, and felony stupids sighted.

A quick read about three hours and has a good index (what can I say, a text book without a good index is worthless). I gave the book four stars because some of the chapters are written by guest authors resulting in some lack of consistency. Also a bibliography would have been nice.

I have also thumbed through some of the other books in this series. The series appears to be a must read for any one in the aviation community who is serious about flight safety.