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A critical
how-to guide to cockpit decision-making for every pilot, based
on FAA-mandated pilot-in-command authority -- and pilot responsibility
for flight safety and operations. Includes essential methods
for self-retraining, techniques for maintaining awareness, and
advice on improving piloting performance. Description
Back Cover :
Fly Safer, Fly Better
Take command of vital decision-making skills. Use the first
large-scale research study on general aviation pilots in 20
years. Pilot In Command reveals why good pilots make bad decisions
and provides techniques for improving your decision-making abilities
for greater flight safety.
This book enables you to:
- Understand
the real reasons behind the high rate of general aviation
accidents.
- Discover
differences between decisions made by expert and general aviation
pilots to avoid accidents.
- Apply
"naturalistic" decision strategies for increased
safety.
- Apply
effective "pattern-matching" techniques to critical
decisions.
- Eliminate
bad carryovers from your initial training.
- Put ASAP
(anticipation, situation awareness, action, and preparation
) to work for safer pilot performance.
- Master
awareness-heightening techniques.
- Gain
greater command of emergency resources.
- Discard
harmful myths about emergency declarations and the FAA.
- Avoid
the pitfalls that ensnare good pilots.
Adding to
his discoveries are the insight, savvy, and voice of thousands
of hours of flying experience of a tried-and-tested pilot. If
you want to be a safer pilot, let Paul A. Craig's Pilot in Command
show you how to gain control over the most important safety
factor in flying: you.
Table
of Contents:
- The Responsibility
of Pilot in Command.
- What
Are the Airlines Doing That We Should Be Doing?
- General
Aviation Left Behind.
- Expert
Pilots.
- The ASAP
Decision Model.
- The Pilot
Categories.
- Making
Improvements.
- Advanced
Qualification Program.
- Decision
Training for Student Pilots.
- Decision
Training for Instrument Pilots.
- Decision
Training for Commercial Pilots.
- Decision
Training for Multiengine Pilots.
- Recommendations.
- Becoming
the Pilot in Command
Author Biography
Paul A. Craig
holds a doctorate of Education, special emphasis pilot decision-making
and flight training strategies. He holds Gold Seal multiengine
and instrument instructor certificates and an Airline Transport
Pilot certificate. Awarded the FAA flight Instructor of the year
designation two consecutive years, Craig is a leading authority
in general aviation pilot training. He is currently employed by
Middle Tennessee State University as Chief Instructor & Assistant
Professor of Aerospace. |
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