WHAT DIFFERENCES THE WAY OF FLYING OF TOM HANKS AND TOM CRUISE’S ?
Tom Cruise has blown up the box office this last year with his movie Maverick.
In its day the Tom Hanks Sully movie was also a big hit.
What is the difference between them?
In action aviation movies (TOP GUN is one of the benchmarks) the pilot’s actions are always fast, anguishing, with no margin for error or to go back, with no chance to change your mind and with instantaneous acts that leave the viewer between life and death in a fraction of a second.
In realistic aviation movies (even about space like Apollo XIII), emergencies occur at a slower pace, with much more time to decide (and even then the time is short) and with a much longer and more complex anguish, because It gives time to think and to know that one can be wrong.
Most of the time, in-flight emergencies are cases that have been repeated or recreated before.
Except some extremely complex or unusual ones.
In other words, they are already trained and thought about both the scenarios and the responses to them.
When the emergency requires immediate action such as
Depressurization
Fire
Evacuation
Flight control problem
The answer is memorized in actions called “memory items”.
In previous posts we already made it clear that following the procedures is the safest thing to do in our work area.
When you don’t need a memory item, don’t rush it.
And we already saw in another post that the emergency of the future is a medical emergency and, except in very specific cases, it is not necessary to make excessively drastic or fast decisions.
So in most emergencies or problems on board the first thing we need to do is NOTHING.
NOTHING AND THINKING.
Almost everything in aviation is written, even the most common airline interview questions are written.
In other words, the first reaction is to have no reaction.
Stop: think, decide, act.
In high-stress professions and very dynamic and changing scenarios, they use the motto:
Breathe, Calibrate, Deliver.
Breathe (stop, think) Calibrate (think more, decide), Deliver (act, execute).
Hoping you don’t have any emergencies (neither slow acting nor immediate), and hoping you find peaceful skies.
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Enrique. Qrewmentor Team.
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