The Decision Making Process.

The Decision Making Process

 

Decision Making Models in Aviation

What that mean the term Decision Making Process to you as an airmen, and why decision making process normally involves several steps in which you as a pilot make selections based on gathering of some factors and also some beyond your control? So, by recognizing the elements you can control, you will improve your aptitude to make intelligent and good effective decisions inside your cockpit.

As pilots, our personalities and attitudes toward risk taking, combined with pressures on us from others, so and may cause us as pilots to make decisions that would be considered imprudent by others.

Pilot Judgment is the mental process that we use in making decisions. Decision making in the flight environments is the choice to use proper phraseology and also to follow all the rules and flying safe by recognizing the elements, you can control and improve safety inside your cockpit to make and effective good decision to stay away from incidents and accidents.

Recognize a change, always maintaining a good situational awareness, this enable you to easily detect a change in your flight environment. Continuously define the problem, choose a course action, implement your decision, and ensure that you made the correct action all the time to have a safe fly in all phases during flying, so, I would like to recollect today in this safety post, the acronym DECIDE, that is used by the FAA to describe the basic steps in the decision making process.

All over the world, pilots learn to fly by studying the rules and regulations, so most accidents are caused by pilot error, as I stated on my previous posts, many errors are a result of poor decision on the part of the pilot, good judgment and good decision making is the key to stay away from accidents.

Remember we are humans and human factors involve the overall performance of human beings.

Any pilot can make mistakes; the most important is to recognize our mistakes on time to make a good decision to avoid any incident or accident.  

DECIDE:

ü  Detect the fact that a change has occurred.

ü  Estimate the need to counter or react to the change.

ü  Choose a desirable outcome for the success of the flight.

ü  Identify actions which could successfully control the change.

ü  Do the necessary action to adapt to the change.

ü  Evaluate the effect of the action.

To use the DECIDE technique, first my best advice to all pilots is memorize the meaning of each of the terms. So, as you repeatedly think through the acronym DECIDE, it will become to you and help you in all your flight decisions, Safety is the Key , think safety all the time.