Comparing Two Oshkosh Trips – Plane & Pilot Magazine | Aviation

Last summer I had the golden opportunity to fly a single-engine airplane, not once, but twice, round trip to Wittman Regional Airport (KOSH) in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

The first was a solo IFR trip in my 1976 Cessna 177B Cardinal to attend the National Intercollegiate Flying Association (NIFA) competition. The second, two months later, was an invitation to fly IFR to EAA AirVenture and back in my friend Jim’s turbocharged Mooney 201.

Both trips involved similar routes, the same destination, and periods of both VFR and IFR weather. Looking back on both these experiences, the primary difference was that the first was guided by the principle of single-pilot resource management (SRM) and the second by its older sibling, crew resource management (CRM).

The term crew resource management is generally credited to NASA psychologist John Lauber. His team developed the concept in the late 1970s to improve “interpersonal communication, leadership, and decision-making” in aircraft flight decks. CRM has gone on to become a staple of airline and military flight training.

A little over 20 years later, the term single-pilot resource management evolved from FAA/university research into the emerging generation of general aviation long-distance travel machines, such as the Cirrus SR22. SRM is defined as “the art of managing all onboard and outside resources available to a pilot before and…

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