CRM Scenarios
PsychologicalWork through evolving flight-deck situations in two or three steps. At each step you choose how to respond as a crewmember, then see how that response would land with the crew and which CRM principle is in play — authority gradient, closed-loop communication, PACE advocacy, shared mental model, workload management.
Overview
What it looks like: Each scenario is an evolving flight-deck situation in two or three steps — a doubt on the taxiway, a captain committed to a narrowing weather gap, a rattled colleague after a rejected takeoff. At each step you choose one of four responses; the reveal shows how every response would land with the crew and names the CRM principle in play, then the situation develops into the next step. What it measures: Your crew resource management attitudes and instincts — managing the authority gradient, closing communication loops, advocating assertively (the PACE model), keeping a shared mental model, and managing workload — reported as a profile across the four NOTECHS-style dimensions (co-operation, leadership & managerial skills, situation awareness, decision-making) that airlines use to grade non-technical skills in sim assessments, and probe in interviews and group exercises. The chains, expert keys and rationales here are original, authored in-house from public CRM frameworks (CMAQ/FMAQ attitude research, NOTECHS, PACE) — alignment is educational, and real airline keys and graders will differ, so treat your profile as reflective preparation rather than a predictive score.
Example: one step of a scenario chain
Each scenario unfolds over two or three steps. At every step you choose one response; the reveal shows how each response would land with the crew, and names the CRM principle in play before the situation develops further.
The intersection shortcut
You are the First Officer. Taxiing out with a queue building behind you, the Captain says: "Let's take the intersection departure — saves us ten minutes." Your performance figures were calculated for the full runway length, and nobody has recomputed them.
One step of the chain — how do you respond?
The aircraft departs on numbers computed for a runway it isn't using — 'obviously fine' is doing the job the performance calculation exists to do.
The Captain nods, you re-run the figures in under a minute, and the shortcut is taken on data instead of optimism — concern raised, loop closed, nothing lost.
A probe is the right opening rung, but a reassuring "we're fine" ends it — the concern was voiced, yet the numbers still never get checked.
The safeguard moves from a calm recomputation at taxi speed to a split-second judgement at a hundred knots — the worst possible place to discover the margin was thin.
Game Phases
Configure
Choose how many scenario chains to work through and, optionally, a NOTECHS-style dimension to focus on.
Respond at each step
Read the situation, weigh the four responses, and commit to one. There is no timer — reason it through the way a professional crew would.
See how it lands
Every response reveals its expert rating and how it would land with the crew, and the step names the CRM principle — then the situation develops into the next step.
Read your CRM profile
See your alignment with the expert key across the four NOTECHS-style dimensions and the five named principles, then review every chain step by step.
More Practice
Judgement & Attitudes
3 exercisesSituational Judgement Test
Read realistic cockpit and crew-room scenarios and judge how a professional flight crew would respond. A practice and reflection tool: after you commit, you compare your judgement with an expert reference and read the reasoning behind it. Play the classic format, or a chat presentation modelled on Aon's chatAssess.
Hazardous Attitudes
Learn and reflect on the FAA's Five Hazardous Attitudes from aeronautical decision-making training. Rate 25 statements for a per-attitude self-profile, or drill short scenarios: name the attitude a pilot's response shows, then pick its prescribed antidote.
Safety Locus of Control
A self-insight questionnaire based on aviation-safety locus of control research. Rate 24 statements about why flights end safely — pilot skill and preparation versus luck, weather, and the system — and see your Internality and Externality profile with a full per-item breakdown.