Chapter 1: Risk Management and Single-Pilot Resource Management
Assessing SRM Skills
Topic Resources
Key Takeaways:
Assessing SRM Skills: Instructors must evaluate learners' decision-making processes, resource usage, risk assessment, situational awareness, workload management, and stress handling, not just technical performance.
Building Judgment Skills: Daily training decisions, like fitness to fly or weather assessments, enhance learners' judgment by requiring them to decide and review the outcomes.
Scenario-Based Training: Simulated emergencies and heavy workloads in scenario-based training help instructors assess learners' judgment and decision-making under stress.
Four SRM Assessment Levels: SRM skills are evaluated across four levels: Explain, Practice, Manage/Decide, and Not Observed, indicating learners' progress and independence.
Postflight Collaborative Assessment: Learners self-assess and compare their evaluations with instructors to improve thought processes and behaviors, receiving progressively challenging feedback.
Effective SRM evaluation goes beyond technical performance, focusing on decision-making, risk assessment, situational awareness, and managing stress and fatigue. Instructors should continually assess learners' judgment and provide feedback to enhance their SRM abilities.
How to Improve SRM Skills
Real-world Decision-Making: During training, pilots often make decisions such as determining fitness to fly or assessing weather conditions. Learners should be encouraged to reflect on these decisions and their outcomes.
Go/No-Go Decisions: Learners should practice making go/no-go decisions, such as evaluating weather conditions and recommending alternatives. While the instructor makes the final decision, learners should analyze risks and make a recommendation.
Scenario-Based Training: Using simulated emergencies or operational problems, instructors can test SRM skills, helping pilots assess judgment and decision-making under pressure.
SRM Assessments: Four Levels
Explain: Learners can identify and understand risks with some prompting.
Practice: Learners apply SRM principles with coaching.
Manage/Decide: Learners gather data, evaluate risks, and make decisions independently.
Not Observed: Tasks not performed or required.
Postflight Collaborative Assessment
Learners should perform self-assessment after each flight and compare it with the instructor’s feedback. This process helps improve judgment and decision-making.
As learners progress, the assessment becomes more challenging. For example, automation management could evolve from a "describe" task to "practice" and "manage-decide" over time.