APT A192: Human Factors and Crew Resource Management
Item | Value |
---|---|
Top Code | 302020 - Piloting |
Units | 3 Total Units |
Hours | 54 Total Hours (Lecture Hours 54) |
Total Outside of Class Hours | 0 |
Course Credit Status | Credit: Degree Applicable (D) |
Material Fee | No |
Basic Skills | Not Basic Skills (N) |
Repeatable | No |
Grading Policy | Standard Letter (S) |
Course Description
Course encompasses a wide range of knowledge, skills and attitudes including communications, situational awareness, problem solving, decision making, and teamwork; together with the entire attendant sub-disciplines which each of these areas entails. CRM can be defined as a management system which makes optimum use of all available resources - equipment, procedures and people - to promote flight safety and enhance the efficiency of flight operations. Transfer Credit: CSU.
Course Level Student Learning Outcome(s)
- Explain how effective utilization of Cockpit Resource Management can mitigate risk during flight.
- Define their own set of personal parameters to include building a risk management matrix to help mitigate risk in their own flight operations.
Course Objectives
- 1. List the origins of CRM and recent human factors research.
- 2. Use industry research to determine where “pilot error” can be reduced.
- 3. Develop their own personal minimums for VFR and IFR flights based on human factors.
- 4. Make risk assessments and be able to adequately minimize those risks for each flight.
- 5. Apply CRM concepts to air traffic control, passengers and ground personnel.
- 6. Describe the Command/Leadership resource management process
- 7. Identify high risk situations
- 8. Construct a risk management matrix
Method(s) of Instruction
- Lecture (02)
- DE Live Online Lecture (02S)
- DE Online Lecture (02X)