The Team Concept and the Leadership inside the Cockpit

The Team Concept and the Leadership inside the Cockpit

Leadership inside the cockpit is the most important resource management; a cockpit leader is first end and primary a competent pilot. No matter which position you occupy in the cockpit, you must learn always to become a leader in that position. All pilot leaders must exercise to control others, so and also must maintain control in any abnormal / emergency situations.

I want to share again this interesting post, I wrote years ago on my safety blog, and also to understand the Team Concept when there are two or more crew members in a cockpit you have a team that must  work together to do the best job possible  for the team rather  than working separately as individuals.

I know sometimes learning team work is frequently difficult for pilots because almost all of their experience is an individual. Training occasionally is based on a single crew concept but some evaluations are made on an individual basis.

Though, in my experience as Aviation Accident Investigator, when accidents happen, the crew is evaluated as a team, they flying together, most likely with the same training instruction and also flying SOP (Standard Operating Procedures), this is the only consistent team performance evaluation being used to.

One of the most important functions to stay away from incidents and accidents any pilot leader is to develop a team concept within his or her group.  Fly Safe. Enjoy again the lecture.

The Pilot and the Leadership Command

Being a good leader as an Airmen or any other profession is very important.

Being a good leader involves many factor as such working with a good team, also deal with a difficult situation that are existing to us in any situation during the flight and of course to handling of any event during an emergency situation, the most important is the safety of the passengers and all the entire crew when you as a pilot in command have the responsibility to fly and valuable aircraft.

Being a good  leader however, means sharing the responsibility to work together to get a common goal as a team, sharing all that information in your cockpit, evaluating any risk that it may be present during any phase of your flight and  management of all the resources in the cabin are principal task .

The good administration of an excellent CRM: This is the most important section for the prevention of accidents.

Leadership is the skill of making a person to do something you want and done because he wants to do and much better, so it should know you as a pilot in command, must lead and always keep your cockpit open for any concern, a good communication will avoid a difficult situation that if not fixed on  time it can contribute  to an incident or accident at any phase of the flight .

Like a good airmen leader, you have to guarantee that everything is running efficiently inside the cockpit, make sure that your team works with you and always are happy and motivated, if something bothers them, or if they have other things to tell you in which not are agree with you, always try to express in a good manner and  their flights must be  always safer, the good leader is the one who shares his knowledge with his team, there is no better thing to share what has been learned in our  of life experience and understanding that we shared, everyone in this profession as pilots we  have learned from fatal accidents , Leadership and Learning are always indispensable.

 If you as a pilot has accumulated many flight hours and many years in this profession, this does not mean you are perfect and cannot be involved in an emergency situation, maybe one day you can be involve in any one, a good leader always learns from their students , coworkers and also from the mistakes of the past fatal incidents and accidents, maybe you as a pilot in command  have more experience and a lot of accumulated  flying hours  more than your colleagues in aviation , but never think and assume you know everything.

Each day of our life brings a new experiences to all of us, and remember always every flight that has been done is different from the last flight we done already.

As pilots we constantly learn new things in our profession. Always learn from the mistakes of the fatal accidents and consequences in the past, those accidents teach us that we must never lose the track that accidents can be avoided.

To be a great leader Airmen, always must be interconnecting and working together inside the cockpit, and maintain a good environment with your team and managing all these resources we have inside the cockpit to flying safely all the time.

It is good to learning the past fatal accidents in general and commercial aviation , this will teach you much more in this profession as pilots , leadership is an action not a position, most things in our life are difficult before they become easy, always fly with safety and  thanks all the time  because you have a good luck to be a good airline pilot  and be grateful to have  that position where you are in the present  ,  it is important  to have a good luck , but do not think you have a good luck in case of an emergency, the pilot leader must always be prepare and be  trained for the unexpected in any difficult situation that is present inside your cockpit at any time.

Always test your crew to maintain a high standard for all its flights and of course you as you as a good leader too.

Always listen and keep your cockpit open for any information, always remember that it is better to reach our destination late but safely.

Always is a good time to remember the right things and follow the rules to fly conservative, if you fly with a respectable safety you can get it and never be involved in any badly situation , make sure always that flying  is very  safely, air safety is the  principal commitment to all Pilots Leaders  .

Learn from others mistakes; don't have others learn from you/ Safety is the best way to work.

Always Fly Safely.