X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [69.171.52.140] (account rob HELO [144.54.59.3]) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.2) with ESMTPSA id 967578 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 29 May 2005 20:31:28 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v728) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <9BB84394-3119-4293-8465-8924548AE661@Logan.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Rob Logan Subject: Re: [LML] Attitude & Safety Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 20:31:26 -0400 To: "Lancair Mailing List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.728) wow, public thanks to Mark for such a thought provoking post. One of the harder things for this civilian to learn in formation flying classes taught by USAF IPs is the post flight briefing, they are brutly honest and direct. hard to swallow if one isn't use to it, but once one realizes they are directed at actions and not personal one can get over it. But there was one I never figured out. One social skill to help others see something they might be missing is to phrase it in a question such that the other party must think about it to answer the question. On a pre brief for a 13 aircraft flight, I asked how flights 2 and 3 were to rejoin after a kinda strange looking formation (for cameras) was done. I was told not to worry, and it would work out fine. as element lead in flight 2 he was right, it would be easy for me but I wasn't entirely sure how lead was going to do it and I wanted to know he knew it would be alittle tricky. Immediately after the pre- brief the lead IP (not lead of the flight) came over to me and asked if I really caired or was trying to make lead think (the social skill from above) When I explained the social skill, I got the post flight yelling for unnecessary question in the pre-brief. How can there be no dumb questions and no unneccessary questions in a briefing?