Good CRM Video - A340 Engine Out


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Yeah, I mean, I'm no expert, but I'd vote that any situation in which anyone is calmly selecting their preferred brand of chocolate treat be prohibited from using the word "emergency" to describe itself.

They are Swiss, they eat chocolate before they do anything.

Part of the CRM. Captain wants to make sure everyone's blood sugar is up to keep them performing. Making sure your crew eats is part of a Captain's responsibility, at least in the EMS world! :D
 
I was an SAT instructor in the states for a few years and it's pretty awesome to see the principles we taught to primary cadets being applied on the line. You hear the FO repeat a few times, "Power, Performance" - that's a PPAA decision making tool. Power, performance, analysis, action. They teach it to private pilot students from day one when dealing with any abnormality and it guides them through the decision along process.

Another dissimilarity to note is that the procedure is to allow the FO to fly the aircraft during abnormalities and emergencies. This allows the captain the ability to analyze the situation and have better awareness of the problem rather than being heads down and focused on flying or even worse- attempting to do both.

I'll have to get on touch with my former students flying the line there and see what they have to say about this scenario.

Thanks for sharing!
 
I did think the CRM was good. No one got in a hurry, and the F/O had a good catch on the C/A running the wrong checklist. I mean, uhm, I rather imagine everything would have been just fine in any case, but they worked through it in what I thought was a good, careful, collected way.

Now, that said, if there were fourteen alarms going off, crap flying all over the place, and a windshield full of terra firma, I'm not sure the same, eh, principles would be terribly useful...but for that sort of problem, two thumbs up.

Zis must be vhy ze trainz all run on tyme!
 
Making sure your crew eats is part of a Captain's responsibility, at least in the EMS world! :D

Uh, yeah, if my brief visits to community programs were any indicator, at those programs, it's the Captain's PRIMARY responsibility. Duty times be damned!
 
I'm just a light twin guy, but I don't even think this qualifies as an emergency in a 4-engine machine.

EDIT: Actually yeah, they specifically say they are not declaring an emergency around the 9:15 point.
 
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