Originally Posted by
Cohiba
The issue with all the callouts has long been noted by the NTSB and our ASAP reports show all too many times either an incomplete understanding of the automation or the PM failing to make a timely callout. Personally I think Delta is trying to address it but the pendulum has swung too far and the Standard Text didn't help (e.g. approaching vertical path and approaching inbound course).
The Flight Safety Foundation released an industry report on Pilot Monitoring. The NTSB and FAA are hardover on the incident data and the report is an attempt to standardize what the crews should/should not do and when they should/should not do it. Looks like several Delta pilots wrote it. Its supposedly written for Pilots and no pyscho-babble. I haven't read it all, but so far like it. The final study is available on the FSF website at
Flight Path Monitoring | Flight Safety Foundation
I spent several days with someone VERY CLOSE to this publication and formed an opinion about it. To me, it seems like "they" are trying to build a flow/checklist/trigger/procedure to explain any mistake that is made in the cockpit. They feel human factors can explain much of why mistakes happen and they seek to "build" the perfect monitoring pilot!
It seems now what we get is the near constant checking/rechecking/verifying/how's that look? cockpit of today. Sure I support procedures to mitigate mistakes and I think the PM should be actively engaged, but what we have now is growing very tedious and may have the opposite effect. And I think this publication has gotten LOTS of traction at Delta, DALPA and ALPA, hence all the changes we have to live with.
