Situational Awareness

Question 1

What is situational awareness?

Answer 1

The process of maintaining a mental model which compares with the real world situation.

•It is ones ability to accurately perceive what is going on in the cockpit and outside the aircraft.

Question 2

34.46.2/46.46.2 Strategies to maintain and enhance SA

Answer 2

• Aviate
• Navigate
• Communicate
• Administrate

GUT

Gather - scan environment
Understand - compare with your mental model
Think ahead - imagine the future, make decisions

Question 3

34.46.4/46.46.4 The relationship between CRM and the building of SA amongst flight-crew

Answer 3

Divide/share workload and responsibilities (SOPs, crew briefings, checklists)

•Ensures that neither crew member becomes overloaded to the point of losing situational awareness

• Guards against an individual crew member adopting a false hypothesis
• Helps take an appropriate course of action