Many failures of interpersonal communication and coordination in the aircraft cockpit have been found to occur as a result of poor management of flightdeck 'resources'. Crew Resource Management (CRM) is a concept that has evolved within the aviation community to specifically address this issue of resource management. The concept of...
The flightcrew of a modern airliner operates in a multi-tasking environment with
several tasks competing for the same attentional resources at the same time. Too many
tasks vying for the crew's attention concurrently imposes a heavy workload on the
flightcrew. This results in the satisfactory execution of some tasks at...