Development of Candidate Crew Coordination Evaluation Methods and Materials
Abstract
This report documents the development of candidate methods and materials for measuring and evaluating crew coordination in the Army's Aircrew Coordination Training Program. The methods are designed for use in evaluating aircrews in all Army aircraft or simulators. The evaluation methods rely on video recording of crew interactions in a simulator or aircraft. The report includes lessons learned from the validation testbed and describes how the evaluation methods and materials were improved to produce a treed exportable evaluation package. The suggested process for evaluating crew coordination is designed to assist the Army to implement the new Aircrew Training Manuals. The primary evaluation measure Is the ACE Checklist, which consists of a set of 13 crew coordination behaviors or Basic Qualities. Mission performance measures were developed to assess the operational effect of crew coordination on flight safety and mission effectiveness. The report provides materials and suggested applications and improvements that can be used to evaluate initial, refresher, and continuation aircrew coordination training conducted in resident courses or by units in the field. Evaluation materials include grade slips, behavioral measures, evaluator worksheets, and suggested mission performance measures, which are all packaged separately in a companion report, Crew Coordination Exportable Evaluation Package for Army Aviation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA398660
Entities
People
- Dennis K. Leedom
- Gary Grubb
- J. Zeller
- Robert Simon