Friday Focus on IFR: Single Pilot Resource Management

20 June 2014 1655 Zulu

From a practical perspective, single pilot resource management is based on the pilot analyzing five key variables—the so-called “Five Ps”—during scheduled times or stages of the flight to ensure a successful outcome. The Five Ps are the plan, plane, pilot, passengers, and program. The scheduled times to execute the Five Ps are preflight, run up, takeoff, cruise, descent/approach, and landing. These times or flight stages are selected because they represent critical points where decisions are most likely to be effectual.

Source: Instrument Flying: 10 Indispensable Principles to Know and Remember, p. 39.

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