JAR-TEL - Joint Aviation Requirements - Translation and Elaboration of Legislation
Overview
Background & policy context:
Despite the highly advanced technical standards in commercial aviation, the safety of airline operations is still heavily connected to human factors. Furthermore, the influence of cultural differences on pilot behaviour and attitudes has been widely reported.
During the last decade considerable emphasis has been placed on non-technical skills as one of the potential sources towards enhanced safety. The emergence of Crew Resource Management (CRM) courses is one of the most visible examples of this growing interest. New mandatory regulations have appeared, requiring the design and development of accompanying tools and methods. This is the case with the new set of CRM regulations calling for an evaluation of flight crews’ CRM skills. In this context the NOTECHS system (Evaluation of non-technical skills of multi-pilot aircrew in relation to the JAR FCL requirements) has been proposed.
Objectives:
The overall aim was to support the implementation of those Joint Aviation Requirements (JAR) codes that refer to human factors in commercial aviation.
The main objectives of JAR TEL were:
- to review and analyse cultural differences and their influence on air crews;
- to validate the use of the NOTECHS system, using an evaluation tool proposed for the evaluation of non-technical skills of multi-pilot air crew, based on a review of well understood non-technical skills of four primary categories related to social and cognitive skills, respectively, divided into the more specific elements: co-operation, leadership and managerial skills, situation awareness and decision-making;
- to perform an experimental evaluation of the NOTECHS system in order to improve its methodology framework and to clarify its application; and
- to bring up guidelines for the implementation of NOTECHS in accordance with JAR.
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