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Relevance
It'll depend on what you do, professionally or for recreation.
If you want to be sure you can be out on the edge and still make
good decisions then you should check Red
Flag out. It's a training system that
can reduce your probability of making a mistake (or confirm that
you're already low in error potential).
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An axiom in safety
says that 20% of people cause 80% of accidents.
Red
Flag is
an error-prevention regime. By taking it on, you can show
you're not in the 20%.
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That is, you can show are less error-prone.
The safety axiom goes further. One-in-five people have no accidents.
Ultimately, you may assemble enough evidence to support a claim
to be in that elite - the most-unlikely-to-have-an-accident
category.
But: We are all error-prone at times.
Factors that prejudice your decision reliability include stress,
fatigue, drug/alcohol affects and emotional distress. In short,
everyone benefits from training to be less error-prone.
Those of us who are not accident-prone contribute disproportionately
to paying the bills for those who are.
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There's enough
on this website to verify all claims on improving safety potential.
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Origins
Red Flag originates
in experience in selecting and training fighter pilots.
The skills that mark a person as less likely to have an accident
can thereby be identified. (The author spent 8 years instructing
in fast jets.)
The critical attributes are described throughout the website, and
especially in The
Tools. Their origins in fighter flying
- well, training fighter pilots - contributes an aviation slant.
However, the skills are universal - the ability to manage under
extreme stress, for example. In short, the training regime is generic.
Red Flag
reflects observations from a past era – the decades when the Mirage
was the RAAF’s front line fighter. Does that date it? Probably not.
Basic human attributes don't change – not any faster than evolution
progresses. The antidotes to human failure can be
defined in terms of the qualities of the best fighter pilots.
Red Flag
is widely applicable and will benefit all professionals. But it
will not appeal to all. Some will note its ability to confer advantage,
but be put off by uncompromising requirements such as to submit
to continual skill fitness testing.
Others won’t be put off. Everyone who entered Air
Force pilot training didn’t become a fighter pilot. Rigorous standards
applied. The ones that passed the tests joined an elite. So too
will Red Flag members.
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Red
Flag design
relies on features that are self-evidently effective. You
will be introduced to them in such a way as to give you time
to be sufficiently persuaded of their merits that you will
engage in your own training regime.
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You can find those self-evidently effective measures described
as you browse the website. You should note, early in the piece,
that the whole Basic Program can be accessed at no cost.
it's all here, freely available.
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