{"id":388,"date":"2017-01-10T00:59:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T16:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2017-01-11T13:42:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T05:42:49","slug":"connection-communication-situation-awareness-working-cycle-cross-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/the-road-to-be-a-pilot\/connection-communication-situation-awareness-working-cycle-cross-checking\/","title":{"rendered":"Connection- Communication, Situation Awareness, Working cycle, Cross Checking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u9996\u8981\u591a\u8b1d\u59b9\u59b9\u8001\u59b9\u5e36\u56de\u4f86\u7684\u66f8~<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, bro, may you share something about your duty? You said that you want to be a bus driver, didn\u2019t you?&#8221; I was asked by my sister, who has just come back from foreign country yesterday. And her query encourage me to share a shameful story with my friends. Rightly, I want to record it so that I can keep myself alert in the future once I saw this blog.<\/p>\n<p>As a <strong>ramp coordinator<\/strong>, I share the same mission and vision with others \u2013 be one of the teammate in aircraft turnaround process. You may treat us as a <strong>liaison officer<\/strong> because we need to monitor everything, from ramp site to gateway situation. We are as if building a \u201ccommunication bridge\u201d between various parties \u2013 passenger service department, catering service, refueling service, cleaning and lavatory service, aircraft maintenance service, airport security service and even the apron, airport authority.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good communication is the essence of every successful operation!<\/strong> One day, I was handling a come-and-go flight as usual. However, I made a delay record starting from a poor communication. I do remember that day the on-chop time well-before the scheduled time of arrival. Therefore, my team should had plenty of time to finish the duty perfectly. \u201cXX Gateway, please inform the final PAX figure to me after counter closure\u2026Also, the est. boarding time might be XXXX\u201d I said through radio. \u201cWico, but the cabin crew has just come up and begging for boarding, so the boarding commenced\u201d the counter replied. I can\u2019t remember why I accept this reply. Is it because of past well cooperation experience with the counter leader? Is it because of my desire in pursuing on-time push-back? Oh\u2026come on\u2026.recall the memory from my deep-mind, I must report to my supervisor or question about his\/her non-notified boarding action. I need to emphasized that <strong>On-Time Push-back(\u201cOTP\u201d) is not On-Time Performance (OTP)<\/strong>. Good RCO and Bad RCO may not only glazing on the push-back time. Yet, I made a wrong concept as well as fault. For my portion of fault, I didn\u2019t set the tone of operation and this may partly reason to mislead my teammate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Situation Awareness is necessary <\/strong>for RCO, and of coz for \u201cdriver\u201d as well! \u201cRCO, the counter is closed, I printed the figure paper for you.\u201d The gateway leader informed me. While I was making the loading and balance sheet for the captain, the counter leader called me via radio \u2013 \u201cRCO, counter closed already\u2026the PAX figure\u2026\u2026\u201d Oh\u2026come on\u2026 do you know what is the quality of a \u201cdriver\u201d \u2013 care about detail. At that operation, I did a bad option to skip the real (latest, updated) information. I had not received any final figures as well as updated information from the counter leader since the first day when I follow my trainer working for that airlines. Of coz, the cases is not ended and my mistake was not found at that moment. Before I tell you how I discovered my \u201cskipping \u201c <strong>error<\/strong> \u2013 RCO <strong>DO OR NOT TO DO something that may make deviation from intended planning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The loading was smoothly, I followed the SOP to query from gateway if there is any baggage needed to be located. \u201cNegative\u2026all PAX will be onboard soon\u201d The gateway leader replied.<\/p>\n<p>When everything was seeming smoothly, the first threat appeared \u2013 the threat is something that from environment and RCO don\u2019t know before they discover \u2013 the un-reported hand-carried bags, less than ten but more than five. The cabin crew report us to put all of that to the bulk compartment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Working cycle<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cALAP\u201d? I do remember this if I am really a \u201cdriver\u201d but no one cultivate the working cycle to encounter that day threat. Rightly, I followed the SOP that I was using. Bravo!!! Human innate response came to be used \u2013 my first action was asking me what I still need to finished for closing the PAX door? That\u2019s the loadsheet! Some load control may barely add the number but remain the weight unchanged. I made an other approach \u2013 while I was \u201cweighting\u201d those bags by my hand, I asked if the gateway noticed or not (of coz they didn\u2019t). I also requested the ramp loading officer for agents to collect those bag. Shamefully, what I did absolutely not the TEM, I won\u2019t made the acft delay if I do know as well apply the concept. Yet, I had learnt is that my working cycle needed to be reviewed. How much time should I spend on ramp and when I should go back to cabin for final check but not affecting the facilitating in baggage seeking and locating? The more important is that how to cultivate the concept of TEM? Need to ponder more from now on~<\/p>\n<p>After all these threat, error came eventually! \u201cCaptain has just asked why the PAX figure on loadsheet is not matched with my PM?\u201d The manager questioned. I asked the gateway leader to make a checking together. Oh\u2026 the printed figure on my hand was not updated but the gateway leader one was updated in opposite. No matter you believe or not, the time frame of mine and his\/her one only in minutes or between. The most ironically is that I was only used one source of \u201cinformation\u201d. I skipped the fucking vital UPDATED-information from the counter leader. Also, I had not use figure X-check approach after the gateway leader reported \u2013 \u201cNegative\u2026all PAX will be onboard soon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The above truth case can be the evidence why I am still a ground staff rather than the flight crew. Come on\u2026DON\u2019T make the same mistake or learn from the lesson!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u9996\u8981\u591a\u8b1d\u59b9\u59b9\u8001\u59b9\u5e36\u56de\u4f86\u7684\u66f8~ &#8220;Hey, bro, may you share something about your duty? You said that you want to be a bus driver, didn\u2019t you?&#8221; I was asked by my sister, who has just come back from foreign country yesterday. And her query encourage me to share a shameful story with my friends. 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