Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish and maintain situational awareness of self and flight crew
- Continuous active monitoring (effective lookout) of all critical factors relevant to the safe progress of a flight is undertaken
- Situational awareness is applied to own and others’ performance in accordance with relevant regulations and legislative requirements
- Trends towards an unsafe situation are promptly recognised and appropriate corrective action is taken
- Breakdown in flight crew situational awareness is identified and rectified promptly
- Set crew priorities and manage tasks
- Crew priorities and workload are allocated to ensure completion of all tasks relevant to the safety of the flight
- Safe operation of aircraft is prioritised ahead of competing tasks
- Critical events and tasks are anticipated and managed to ensure accurate completion within available time constraints
- Technology is used effectively to reduce workload and to improve ability to safely perform mental and manipulative activities
- Signs and symptoms of team fatigue are identified and actions are taken to manage fatigue of self or in others
- Work with others in managing situational awareness
- Collaboration with flight crew members is undertaken to ensure safe completion of flight operations
- Effective and efficient crew communications and interpersonal relationships are established and maintained to ensure safe flight outcome
- Flight crew members are encouraged to contribute to safe flight outcome
- Appropriate actions are taken in conjunction with others to cooperatively correct identified unsafe situations that may develop at any point during the flight
- Command decisions are communicated to other flight crew members to maintain and manage situational awareness