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Description
Mr. Peters describes “self critiquing”, a debriefing strategy wherein pilots discuss their own flying errors with the rest of the aerobatics team. He goes on to praise the valuable contribution of the ground crew to the team’s safety.
Transcription
Your life depends on everybody around you knowing and doing their job to the best of their ability. One of the things that is very important with it is that there is a self critique feature where when you have gone up flying and come back down everybody will say what they did wrong because without that you could never find out in a lot of cases if a manouevre went wrong
what happened. So people will confess I did this, and that’s what caused it. So that you, there’s this openness that, openness that develops and the trust, there’s a bond developed because of that trust. There is a lot of friendship from the point of view of little jokes that they play on one another. Another important part of the team is the ground crew and the bond between the pilot and the ground crew in the Snowbirds reflects the way it used to be in the olden days between the fighter pilots and the ground crew because they prepare your plane for you and your life is in their hand every time that you go up, because if they do not prepare it properly, if they’re slack in anything they do then it could be catastrophic.