LEAd THE DEFINITION OF CREW RESOURCE MANAGEMENT An aircraft and the environment in which it operates are rich with resources available to a pilot-technology, procedures, and people. Managing a team means identifying each member's unique skillset so they may contribute effectively to completing the mission. Subsequently, a type of management that emphasizes the crew's effective use of resources is crew resource management. The fundamental focus of CRM is to maximize safety in a context where a relatively insignificant human error can have dire results. It prioritizes collaborative decision-making over absolute obedience to authority. THE BEST WAY TO TEACH CRM IS BY EXAMPLE. STUDENT PILOTS SOAK IN HOW YOU TRANSMIT OVER THE RADIO, YOUR PHRASEOLOGY, YOUR ATTITUDE TOWARD OTHER PILOTS AND STUDENT PILOTS, AND YOUR PROFESSIONALISM AND PERFORMANCE. Dating back to the late 1970s, the Tenerife runway collision between two Boeing 747 aircraft had the effect of thrusting a defiant aviation industry into calculating human factors as a probable cause of aircraft accidents-current data indicates somewhere between 50 and 80 percent. CRM was organized as a proactive response to prevent accidents caused by human error. HUMAN ERROR VERSUS PILOT ERROR Despite their differences, pilot error and human error are frequently used interchangeably. Buthttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/planecrash/minutes.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/planecrash/minutes.html