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Pilot Decision Making Simulator

In September of 2007, Transport Canada released the Safety Study on Risk Profiling the Air Taxi Sector in Canada. This study was commissioned as a result of a number of accidents that occurred over a short period of time in British Columbia in 2006. While the study concluded that the spike in the accident rate was just that and not an increase in the overall rate or a trend, it did make several recommendations in an effort to mitigate some of the inherent risk associated with Air Taxi Operations in mountainous terrain.

As a result of one of the recommendations made in the report, Transport Canada has developed a pilot decision making simulator. This simulator was developed utilising real life scenarios and has relied heavily on pilots' personal experiences as well as TSB investigations

The simulator will expose pilots to difficult decision making processes and the resultant outcomes from their choices, and in doing so, highlight cues that may have otherwise gone unnoticed.

Situational awareness is key to the safe operation and completion of any flight. The goal of the decision-making simulator is to aid pilots with the development of useful mental models and consequently increase their ability to develop good situational awareness. Even the best trained crews and pilots can make poor decisions without good situational awareness.

Pilot Decision Making Simulator

Date modified:
2010-03-31