Elements and Performance Criteria
- Manage human performance
- Degradation of physiological condition is recognised and appropriate strategies implemented to ensure safe outcome
- Signs of stress are identified and managed to maintain a safe operating environment
- Limitations to personal performance are communicated to others where necessary to maintain a safe operating environment
- Signs of personal fatigue are identified and managed to maintain a safe operating environment
- Communicate effectively
- Questions are used to gain additional information and to clarify understanding of remote pilot aircraft system mission
- Information received is clarified, as required, interpreted and accurately communicated or reported with due observation of the operational environment
- Communication is undertaken in varying situations with culturally diverse, familiar and unfamiliar individuals, teams and crews
- Appropriate protocols and procedures are followed when using communications systems during routine and contingency remote system operations
- Effective communication is maintained with stakeholders
- Recognise and respond to actual and potential threats and errors
- Hazards are identified, risks are assessed and hazard management is implemented
- Actual environmental or operational threats that affect the safety of RPAS flight are recognised
- Competing operational priorities and task demands that may represent a threat to the safety of RPAS flight are identified
- Threat countermeasures are identified and implemented
- RPAS flight progress and effect of countermeasures are monitored and assessed to ensure a safe outcome
- Alternative countermeasures are identified and implemented, and effectiveness of countermeasures are re-evaluated
- Checklists and standard operating procedures are implemented to prevent RPAS handling, procedural or communication errors
- Committed errors are identified and responded to before aircraft enters an undesired state
- RPAS are monitored using a systematic scan technique to collect and analyse flight information for potential or actual error recognition purposes
- RPAS operating environment is monitored to collect and analyse flight information for potential or actual error recognition purposes
- Own performance is self-monitored to recognise potential or actual error occurrence
- Countermeasure implementation is undertaken to prevent or correct errors before RPAS enters an undesired state
- Countermeasure implementation is undertaken to prevent or correct errors after RPAS enters an undesired state