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Alex Pollitt @AlexPollitt1

Deputy Managing Director of Family Life (under training). Also Pilot AW139, CRM & Human Factors Instructor, and Brexit fugitive in exile.

Joined August 2018
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Exhorting people to be less complacent is akin to addressing error conditions by telling to think a bit more before they act. It reflects an outdated view of safety and error management. competentaviators.com/2022/0…

Does complacency really cause errors?

Attributing complacency as a cause of human error is as easy as it is lazy. Why?

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Juan Antonio Salado@jantsalado
24 Aug 2022
Nube de levante sobre #Gibraltar 🚂

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SALVAMENTO MARÍTIMO
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4 Aug 2022
Un tripulante inconsciente, un pesquero (Sol III) que lo ve y avisa y el helicóptero de @salvamentogob Helimer 223 / tripulación Babcock que rescatan al varón a 10,2 mn Denia y traslada al Hospital de La Fe. También LS Montgo #CruzRoja . Equipos que funcionan, que salvan vidas
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We equate fast recall & response with cognitive ability, expertise, & experience. But what if we could disassociate the idea of slowness with incompetence? What if we came to associate a slow response with higher skill levels and greater professionalism? competentaviators.com/2022/0…

The need for speed? How slowness has a value all of its own.

Human exploits in aviation have always been closely linked to our fascination for speed. We admire speed in its many guises and it remains a marker of achievement in almost any field you care to th…

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Should we be looking critically at how to approach startle and surprise training from a rotary wing perspective? what should it mean in an applied sense, and how should we be approaching it? #startle #surprise #training #helicopters #CRM #haiexpo22 wp.me/pcYbqj-bs

Developing resilience to startle and surprise in helicopter operations

Also published in AirMed&Rescue April 2022 edition. What should startle and surprise training mean in an applied sense and how should we be approaching it? Do the differences between airline tr…

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David Gauke@DavidGauke
11 Feb 2022
Tbf he has a point.
Dominic Cummings
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11 Feb 2022
great work tory mps leaving this crippled joke of a pm spending next 7 days bunkered down with lawyers trying to remember all his different lies while another major global crisis unfolds
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Great to be able to contribute to #airmedandrescue magazine again, this time on the subject of automation from a #humanfactors perspective! airmedandrescue.com/latest/l…

The automation explosion: examining the human factor fallout

Alex Pollitt explores the dramatic demand for automation in the cockpit, and how it has both alleviated pilot workload and exposed our limited understanding of the human factor at the center of it all

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BBC News (UK)
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6 Aug 2021
Man, 56, dies after falling from e-scooter bbc.in/3lD9qDd

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Developing Competency in Problem-Solving and Decision Making: The importance of Process vs Outcome. competentaviators.com/2021/0…
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Competency based training. By trying to solve one training problem are we creating another? sleeveandspindle.wordpress.c…

Competency based training. By trying to solve one training problem are we creating another?

At the beginning of this month I tuned in to the Royal Aeronautical Society’s webinar titled, Flight Crew Competence; Assessing what and how? The webinar aimed to address the concept of Evidence Ba…

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SMALL TALK, BIG DISTRACTION: TAKING A LOOK AT THE STERILE COCKPIT CONCEPT THROUGH THE LENS OF HELICOPTER OPERATIONS sleeveandspindle.wordpress.c…

SMALL TALK, BIG DISTRACTION: TAKING A LOOK AT THE STERILE COCKPIT CONCEPT THROUGH THE LENS OF...

The concept of the ‘Sterile Cockpit’ as a defence against distraction is a well known one, even well below the cruising levels of the world’s airline operations. The chances are most helicopter pil…

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The checklist in the rotary wing cockpit: Understanding what, why, and how. sleeveandspindle.wordpress.c…

The checklist in the rotary wing cockpit: Understanding what, why, and how.

Do helicopter crews have as good an understanding of the proper use of checklists and checklist philosophy as their airline pilot brethren? Like everyone else, I have worked with checklists since I…

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AERONAUTICAL DECISION-MAKING AND LOSS AVERSION: sleeveandspindle.wordpress.c…

AERONAUTICAL DECISION-MAKING AND LOSS AVERSION:

What Nobel Prize Winner Daniel Kahneman can teach us about why taking the hardest decisions of them all is so hard. In his book Thinking Fast and Slow Nobel Prize winning economist and thinker Dani…

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Crew Resource Management Training from Classroom to Cockpit. Are we missing a link? sleeveandspindle.wordpress.c…

Crew Resource Management Training from Classroom to Cockpit. Are we missing a link?

When preparing for a trip to the simulator most of us start by reaching for the emergency and abnormal checklist to refresh ourselves on the inevitable bevvy of aircraft malfunctions that we know w…

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22 Dec 2020
“A successful mentality in #SAR requires flexibility, the ability to absorb and react to changing circumstances, taking decisions and then revisiting and being willing to change those decisions..." — @AlexPollitt1 verticalmag.com/features/sea…

Managing search-and-rescue crew resources

Successful search-and-rescue operations require crew resource management through standard procedures, effective training and detailed debriefings.

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Don’t neglect your CRM: The value of telling stories sleeveandspindle.wordpress.c…

Don’t neglect your CRM: The value of telling stories

Last week was a CRM week. I was immersed in a Crew Resource Management course for aspiring facilitators with three full days dedicated to talking, listening, and learning about flying, human factor…

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Flying SAR in the sunshine: What’s not to like?! sleeveandspindle.wordpress.c…

Flying SAR in the sunshine: What’s not to like?!

From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean: The Weather. Learning to adjust. And just learning. On moving to Valencia last year to try my hand at flying a Search and Rescue helicopter in Spain, the pre…

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Is Human Factors in aviation at a crossroads? sleeveandspindle.wordpress.c…

Is Human Factors in aviation at a crossroads?

Now seems like a good time to look beyond the dark prism of the current COVID-induced crisis in aviation to consider a future beyond the mire. The Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factor…

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Can you learn to deal with the unexpected & unpredictable? sleeveandspindle.wordpress.c…

Can you learn to deal with the unexpected & unpredictable?

Cognitive Readiness in Search and Rescue operations: What is it? Do you have it? How do you get it? There’s a problem with training to learn to deal with the unexpected: we simply don’t know in adv…

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