CRM Flashcards
What are the Airbus Golden Rules for Pilots?
- Fly. Navigate. Communicate: In this order and with appropriate tasksharing.
- Understand the FMA at all times.
- Use the appropriate level of automation at all times
- Take action id things don’t go as expected.
Ref: FCTM / ??
The following four Golden Rules for Pilots are applicable to all normal operations, and to all unexpected or abnormal/emergency situations:
Fly. Navigate. Communicate: In this order and with appropriate tasksharing
Fly! Navigate! Communicate! The flight crew must perform these three actions in sequence and must use appropriate tasksharing in normal and abnormal operations, in manual flight or in flight with the AP engaged.
The following explains each of the three actions, and the steps associated with the performance of these actions:
Fly
“Fly” indicates that:
The Pilot Flying (PF) must concentrate on “flying the aircraft” to monitor and control the pitch attitude, bank angle, airspeed, thrust, sideslip, heading, etc., in order to achieve and maintain the desired targets, vertical flight path, and lateral flight path
The Pilot Monitoring (PM) must assist the PF and must actively monitor flight parameters, and call out any excessive deviation. The PM’s role of “actively monitoring” is very important.
Therefore, both flight crewmembers must:
Focus and concentrate on their tasks to ensure appropriate tasksharing
Maintain situational awareness and immediately resolve any uncertainty as a crew.
Navigate
“Navigate” refers to and includes the following four “Know where … ” statements, in order to ensure situational awareness:
Know where you are…
Know where you should be…
Know where you should go…
Know where the weather, terrain, and obstacles are.
Communicate
“Communicate” involves effective and appropriate crew communication between the:
PF and the PM
Flight crew and Air Traffic Control (ATC)
Flight crew and the cabin crew
Flight crew and the ground crew.
Communication enables the flight crew to safely and appropriately perform the flight, and enhance situational awareness. To ensure good communication, the flight crew should use standard phraseology and the applicable callouts.
In abnormal and emergency situations, the PF must recover a steady flight path, and the flight crew must identify the flight situation. The PF must then inform ATC and the cabin crew of:
The flight situation
The flight crew’s intentions.
The flight crew must therefore always keep in mind the key message:
Fly the Aircraft, Fly the Aircraft, Fly the Aircraft…
To safely and appropriately perform a flight, both flight crewmembers must have basic flying skills, and must be able to fly with appropriate tasksharing in all situations.
Use the appropriate level of automation at all times
Aircraft are equipped with several levels of automation, used to perform specific tasks.
The appropriate use of automated systems significantly helps the flight crew with, for example:
Workload management
Situation awareness (traffic, ATC communication, etc.).
The flight crew must, at all times, perform both of the following:
Determine and select the appropriate level of automation that can include manual flight
Note:
The decision to use manual flight must be agreed between both pilots and must be based on an individual assessment of the pilot. This assessment should include aircraft status (malfunctions), pilot fatigue, weather conditions, traffic situation, and if the PF is familiar with the area.
Understand the operational effect of the selected level of automation
Understand the FMA at all times
The flight crew must confirm the operational effect of all actions on the AFS CP of the FCU, or on the KCCU, via a crosscheck of the corresponding annunciation or data on the PFD and on the ND.
At all times, the flight crew should be aware of the following:
Guidance modes (armed or engaged)
Guidance targets
Aircraft response in terms of attitude, speed, and trajectory
Transition or reversion modes.
Therefore, to ensure correct situational awareness, at all times, the flight crew must:
Monitor the FMA
Announce the FMA
Confirm the FMA
Understand the FMA.
Take action if things do not go as expected.
If the aircraft does not follow the desired vertical or lateral flight path, or the selected targets, and if the flight crew does not have sufficient time to analyze and solve the situation, the flight crew must immediately take appropriate or required actions, as follows:
The PF should change the level of automation:
From managed guidance to selected guidance, or
From selected guidance to manual flying.
The PM should perform the following actions in sequence:
Communicate with the PF
Challenge the actions of the PF, when necessary
Take over, when necessary.
