‘Monitoring Matters’
The aviation industry should recognize the importance of improved cockpit monitoring by flight crewmembers as a tool in reducing safety incidents, the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says.
The CAA said its new Monitoring Matters safety package — consisting of guidance material and five video re-enactments of actual incidents in which poor monitoring compromised safety — is aimed primarily at flight training instructors and will be of interest to all commercial pilots in multicrew operations.
“Effective monitoring really does matter on the flight deck,” said Gretchen Haskins, director of the CAA Safety Regulation Group. “Pilot monitoring skills play an absolutely vital role in ensuring the safety of aircraft operations. However, we do see significant variations in the quality of this monitoring. If we are to maintain the U.K.’s excellent safety record, we need to ensure all operators are focusing the relevant components of their ab…
