Academic Catalogs

APT A192: Human Factors and Crew Resource Management

Course Outline of Record
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)

  1. Explain how effective utilization of Cockpit Resource Management can mitigate risk during flight.
  2. 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)