1 Background

The basics of threat management, including definitions of terms, types of threats and how threats develop were covered by the Threat Management and Error Management briefing notes, which are a prerequisite to understanding this document and should be read first.

This briefing note focuses on the point that simple texts describing threat-management strategies are not sufficient to prepare pilots to manage complex threats. It is also necessary for a pilot to understand the need for such threat-management strategies and to see how such strategies were developed and can affect real-world situations. It is relatively simple for an organization to develop threat-management schemes based on past events, but training crews to the level where they can quickly implement the schemes in the cockpit, when conditions are unfavorable and workload is high, is a more difficult undertaking.

2 Introduction