| Title | Determining the Feasibility and Effectiveness of Aircraft Pilot Mentoring Programs |
|---|---|
| Record ID | 81881 |
| Personal Name Creator |
Williams, Kevin W.; Schroeder, David; Hackworth, Carla |
| Corporate Creator | United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aviation. Civil Aerospace Medical Institute; Cherokee, CRC |
| Corporate Contributor |
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aviation. Office of Aerospace Medicine |
| Publisher | United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aviation. Civil Aerospace Medical Institute |
| Publication Date | 20180301 |
| Language | English |
| Abstract | In response to NTSB recommendations, the FAA drafted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to establish flight crew mentoring programs for new-hire pilots and pilots upgrading or transitioning to a pilot in command position (FAA, 2013). Before publishing this NPRM, the FAA was asked to review the mentoring research literature to assess the benefits of mentoring as it was related to flight deck training and make recommendations regarding the development of mentoring programs. This report is a summary of that research review. Findings showed two difficult problems with the use of mentoring as an effective training tool are the lack of well-established definitions of the mentoring process and the lack of scientific rigor in the mentoring research literature. It was recommended that, before proceeding with mandating mentoring programs for the airlines, clearly specified goals need to be developed for those programs. As an alternate recommendation, we believe that other forms of pilot training, such as accelerated expertise (Hoffman, Ward, Feltovich, DiBello, Fiore, & Andrews, 2013) might prove more effective than mentoring. A third recommendation is to look at the practice of virtual or e-mentoring (Zev, 2014). |
| Rosap ID | dot:56992 |
| Rosap URL | https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/56992 |
| TRT Terms | Training; Air pilots; Feasibility analysis; Literature reviews; Aviation |
| General Subjects | Mentoring; pilot mentoring; Pilot training; flight deck training; mentoring assessment |
| Geographical Coverage |
United States |
| TRIS Online Accession No |
1735868 |
| Report Number | DOT/FAA/AM-19/15 |
| Resource type | Tech Report |
| URL | https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/81000/81800/81881/201915.pdf |
| Format | |
| Database | NTL Digital Repository |