I will rate your answer up or down! Poor decisions happen for many reasons - emo
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I will rate your answer up or down!
Poor decisions happen for many reasons - emotions, illness, fatigue, vision problems, pressing against limits, ignoring minimum fuel requirements, memory flaws, stress, alcohol, and others.
From your own experience or an aviation report, give ONE example of a risky flight decision related to any of those decisions. Use the DECIDE Model (detect estimate choose identify do evaluate)to identify and apply each part of the model in explaining your example. Hypothesize how you could mitigate this impact. Support your work with at least two reliable sources.
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Explanation / Answer
Risky flight decision:
(source is a reliable aviation report)
Example: In case of aviation safety one crucial point is risk management. When a flight is in air the overall safety is somehow dependent on the pilot. According to aviation journals, the definition of pilot indicate those trained peoples who are experts in aircraft operations with knowledge of safety rules and regulations. Moreover, their certification proves them fit (mentally and physically). The pilot training makes them effective decision makers while they are on board (considering any situation). However, all those skilled experts are just human beings and sometimes they take poor decision due to many reasons like emotions, illness, vision issues, fatigues, stress etc. As an example, flight 1566 (corporate airlines), on 2004 met an accident near the runaway as the pilots neglected the mandatory approach procedure due to extreme fatigue (Halford, 2016). The pilots were on duty for 14 hours for six consecutive days. In this case, the risky decision was avoiding the mandatory approaching procedures.
DECIDE model: To take the correct decision there is a universal model for any industry. The model is named DECISION. In this aviation industry the model links CRM and CAMO issues. According to the definition the alphabets in the acronym means detection, estimation, choice, identification, doing(action) and evaluation.
detection: This is awareness point. The pilots should not have denied their condition of fatigue for six cnsecutive days (cross cheking all the parameters)
estimation: They should consider their alternative options like rotating the shifts and taking rest alternatively
Choosing: to remove risks they can take choose the best decision without engaging everyone (pilots ) in the process (Halford, 2016)
identification: identifying the loop and holes of taken decision like accidents/ crash, injury (if the approach process is avoided)
Do: using the mandatory procedure while changing some work/rest sechedule
Evaluation: The aaction recording and documentation was not there so it should be considered
Mitigation and recommendation: Fatigue is a crucial issue in aviation industry and according to the statistics 5-9% accidents (air) are directly related to the fatigue issue (Stokes and Kite, 2017). Moreover, the pilots try to deny the issue increasing the risk factor in aviation industry. In this context, changing sleep/wake, work/rest schedule and increasing Samn-perelli test should help.
References:
Stokes, A.F. and Kite, K., 2017. Flight stress: Stress, fatigue and performance in aviation. Routledge.
Halford, C.D., 2016. Implementing Safety Management Systems in Aviation. Routledge.