Emergencies

Question 1

Identify strategies that will improve situational awareness

Answer 1

• Vigilance
• Active monitoring
• Active weather watch
• Local area knowledge
• Minimizing distractions

Question 2

Advantages of sharing the workload during an emergency:

Answer 2

• More people involved means more ideas and knowledge
• Group can be very efficient
• Will increase poll of local knowledge
• faster response times because of increased assistance
• Provides peer support network

Question 3

Disadvantages of sharing the workload during an emergency:

Answer 3

• it can become disorganized if not well managed
• group interaction can be distracting at critical times
• communication and information sharing can become stifled
• complacency over who is leading the search
• unprofessional behaviour

Question 4

When you work as a team there has to be:

Answer 4

• a clear leader
• a clear division of labor
• A clear collection point of information

Question 5

during an emergency:

Answer 5

• Provide as much assistance as possible to aircraft in distress and to organizations providing SAR
• Notify pertinent facilities and services regarding the emergency
• Coordinate fully with all concerned agencies