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The document outlines flow patterns and trigger points for various phases of flight from cockpit preparation through parking. It emphasizes using briefings to identify threats, discuss mitigations, and establish shared understanding between crew members. Briefings should be tailored based on experience and complexity but always focus on safety by considering risks and significant deviations from standard operations.

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New Flow Patterns

The document outlines flow patterns and trigger points for various phases of flight from cockpit preparation through parking. It emphasizes using briefings to identify threats, discuss mitigations, and establish shared understanding between crew members. Briefings should be tailored based on experience and complexity but always focus on safety by considering risks and significant deviations from standard operations.

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COCKPIT PREPARATION - FLOW PATTERN

TRIGGER: COMPLETION OF THE PRELIMINARY COCKPIT PREPARATION

TRIGGER: DEPARTURE BRIEFING COMPLETED


BRIEFING GUIDELINES
Flight crew briefings are first of all your essential tool for management of threats and errors that may affect
your flight.
The main purpose of flight crew briefing is enhancement of safety and the management of risks. Think
out of the box and you will more easily identify potential threats that may affect your intended operation.
Then you discuss the mitigations of those threats together with your crew.
The second purpose of your briefing is the identification of significant differences or deviations to
“standard” operations, everything that is not daily routine. At the end of the briefing, you and your other
flight crew members should have a shared mental model of the intended operation and the threats with
its mitigations.
Briefing must not be confused with repeating SOP’s. Your briefings should complement the SOP’s, but it
should not be a repetition of the SOP items. To make this clear, Airbus has moved a lot of content from
the traditional FCTM briefing to SOP items during cockpit preparation. Those items are marked as BOTH
pilot items. The content of those BOTH pilot SOP items will not be repeated during the new briefing.
Examples. The aircraft acceptance, the FMGS check, FUEL check…. These examples should be completed
before starting the briefing.

DEPARTURE BRIEFING:
PM starts the briefing and states the view of the intended plan after checking the FMGS set-up. The PM
initiating the briefing sections the PF can be assured that the PM has the same expected monitoring
framework. PF briefing gives additional strategic operational items important for the PM.
Briefings should never be routine, they are intended to break the routine. A good briefing requires out of
the box thinking beyond the pure reflection of SOP’s. Briefing should have a threat focused view. Source
of your briefing should be all information you got from pre-flight preparation, your professionalism and the
sum of the experience of all crew members who operates the flight. Your briefing technique is good if you
have a birds eye view on all information so as to identify and prioritize threats that may affect your operation.
Your briefing should also contain significant differences or deviations to “standard” operation on that day.
Briefing is used to refresh SOP’s, procedures or techniques if they are expected or likely.

LENGTH OF BRIEFING:
There should be a variation in the amount of detail and in the length. You will make a longer, more detailed
briefing if in case e.g. crew are not familiar with the airport or less experience, in case of complex airports
or procedures.
A shorter briefing restricted to the minimum items will be possible in the case of e.g. operating to a well
familiar airport, the repetitive operations by the same crew. In this case you can restrict the briefing to the
items mentioned in the FCTM table. A long briefing is not necessarily a good one.
BEFORE START FLOW PATTERN
PIT ARATIO- FLOW PATTERN
PATTTRIGGER: START CLEARANCE OBTAINED

TRIGGER: BEFORE START FLOW COMPLETE


AFTER START FLOW PATTERN

TRIGGER: ENG AVAIL AFTER 2ND ENGINE START

TRIGGER: HAND SIGNAL GIVEN


TAXI FLOW PATTERN

TRIGGER: DEPARTURE BRIEFING CONFIRMED

TRIGGER: CABIN READY REPORT RECEIVED & T-O CONFIG PB PRESSED


TRIGGER: REVISED DEPARTURE BRIEFING COMPLETED
LINE-UP FLOW PATTERN

TRIGGER: LINE-UP CLEARANCE OBTAINED

TRIGGER: JUST BEFORE ENTERING THE T-O RUNWAY


ACCELERATION FLOW PATTERN

TRIGGER: NORMAL- FLAP ZERO SELECTED

SINCE AFTER TAKEOFF/CLIMB C/L IS REMOVED, THE LANDING GEAR MUST BE


CHECKED IN UP POSITION DURING THE ACCELERATION FLOW. DURING FAILURE
MANAGEMENT AFTER TAKEOFF OR GO-AROUND, ACCELERATION FLOW
SHALL BE PERFORMED ON REACHING ECAM STS PAGE
 Reduce the workload during a dynamic flight phase

New flow pattern mitigates the risk of inappropriate configuration Additional risk
mitigations:
● Noise and barber pole VLO on PFD
● OVERSPEED audio alert in case VLE/MLE is exceeded
● Periodic fuel check.

During failure management after Takeoff or Go-Around, Acceleration Flow shall be


performed on reaching ECAM STS page
AT 10 000 FT AAL FLOW PATTERN (CLIMB)

TRIGGER: PASSING 10,000 FT AAL


ARRIVAL BRIEFING:
The arrival briefing works in a similar way as the departure briefing. It follows the same logic as the
departure briefing with the PM starting the PLAN part and the threat identification.
AT 10 000 FT AAL FLOW PATTERN (DESCENT)

TRIGGER: PASSING 10,000 FT AAL

TRIGGER: BELOW 10,000 FT AAL DESCENDING AND ALTIMETER SET

NOTE: "SET" is used to be in line with the recommendations of the ICAO on the board/ground
communications.
TRIGGER: LDG CONF SET & THE CABIN REPORT RECEIVED CABIN READY FUNCTION INSTALLED
GO AROUND FLOW PATTERN (WITH FD ON)
AFTER LANDING FLOW PATTERN

TRIGGER: GROUND SPOILERS DISARMED

TRIGGER: AFTER THE RUNWAY IS VACATED PWS INSTALLED


PARKING FLOW PATTERN

TRIGGER: A/C STOPS AT THE GATE /BAY

TRIGGER: SEAT BELTS SIGNS OFF

NOTE: "SET" is used to be in line with the recommendations of the ICAO on the board/ground
communications.
TRIGGER: AFTER LAST PASSENGER DISEMBARKS

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