Crew Resource Management

Crew Resource Management Crew resource management is one of the most important skills a pilot can utilize while flying. It helps you to manage workload, divide tasks, and have better situational awareness, among other things. Without it, we would be expected to perform all the tasks of a flight by ourselves. As most pilots know, this is almost impossible during stressful phases of flight such as instrument approach procedures. This is why crew resource management is so important for not only the safety of yourself as a pilot, but also the safety of your passengers.
The article I am writing on is about a crew from British Airways that displayed very poor crew resource management. It was a crew at Saint Kitts airport in the Caribbean. The crew had gotten their clearance to taxi to runway 7 at taxiway alpha. The crew had never been to Saint Kitts and they were unfamiliar with the airports layout. The sun was low in the west and they had pulled away from the terminal. They thought they were going to taxiway alpha and the crew somehow ended up at taxiway bravo. Taxiway bravo was about halfway down the runway compared to taxiway alpha, which would have given the aircraft more than enough distance to safely take off. The aircraft ended up beginning its takeoff roll at bravo. They did a short field takeoff because the captain had noticed that he thought the runway looked a bit shorter than what he is used to. The crew had begun their takeoff roll and even some of the passengers had realized that the aircraft was not at the correct spot on the field to be departing. The Boeing 777 ended up clearing the end of the runway by 300 meters.
As you can see this display of poor crew resource management did not result in as disastrous of an outcome as it could have been, but incidents such as this should be avoided altogether. With better situational awareness this could have been completely avoided. As pilots for British Airways, if they did not have electronic taxi