This is an off-shoot of this thread - When the GPS Goes Belly Up I realize this is heresy but with regards to the dependency on nav plots, either manual or electronic it’s worth taking a look at how the Navy / CG trains new officers. In my experience at least when the most junior officer is given …

[image] MAK: Set a ‘window timer’ that gives a soft noise. I’m going to have to remember that trick.

Sometimes discovery is made the hard way. [image] The Navy is retiring a submarine that miraculously survived a terrifying... Sailors bid farewell Friday to the attack submarine that survived a violent 2005 collision and would go on to serve another decade.

[image] MAK: Set a ‘window timer’ that gives a soft noise. Every time it goes off you look out the window. I don’t have any windows. I have a windswept poop deck, a wheel, compass, throttles and wind and sounder gauges. The chart’s below deck as are the radar, GPS, AIS, radios etc. I can b…

[image] Lee_Shore: Sometimes discovery is made the hard way. I have a naval friend who used to be in the RN submarine service. He told me a story of his nuclear powered sub hitting an uncharted undersea mountain at 30 odd knots as she made a high speed Atlantic crossing. Fortunately it was …

[image] Kennebec_Captain: According to Col John Boyd it’s OODA; Observe - Orient - Decide -Act. Just observing is not enough, have to be able to orient. That’s what new mates can’t do. OODA loop or more unconventional “destruction and creation” theory? All these advanced situation awareness …

The context here is to answer the question: Why is saying “look out the window” insufficient? Assume that Boyd is known and answer in one sentence.

I’ll bite. Because without a structural framework, it’s vague, simplistic and as cringe worthy as the ubiquitous and redundant “be careful”.

What about this thread? [image] Connections From Hammond's "The Mind of War" - Col John Boyd Marine Safety This is one of my favorite books. Focus on operations not business or finance. A useful read for management level mariners. The USMC manual MCD1 - “Warfighting” …

Yes, the other way around. To me it’s as useful as a PSA that says “don’t drink and drive”. As a standalone statement, it’s unlikely to change anyone’s behavior. The advice to ‘look out the window’ without a framework to support it carries no more weight than a PSA. To be effective, it has to …

This all prompts the lessons learned by the crash of a PSA 727 in San Diego in the 80’s. SDO is where I got my civilian wings, so to speak and gave me the perspective at what happened. Boiled down to my opinion, the PSA crew was NOT looking out the window when they hit the Cessna 172 from behind. Al…

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