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B737-800 captain reported that the addition of a cockpit printer resulted in greatly improved situational awareness.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1696067 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201910 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Light | Dawn |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B737-800 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying Captain |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 228 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | No Specific Anomaly Occurred All Types |
Narrative:
Printed copies of the weight and balance information and preflight performance data made captain's review of data more clear and precise; enhancing safety. Captain had been off for six weeks; moving slowly through checklists and flows. The improvement in my situational awareness between this particular flight (having the printout) and the others during the same trip was significant; highlighting items on the report and completing an overall review (with all data presented on a single page) allowed me to create a better shared mental model with first officer. On subsequent flights; returning to paging through FMC screens to review data and conduct checklist; it felt as if crew had returned to a program of haphazard; degraded; antiquated and less precise operations.recommend installing flight deck printers on all company aircraft.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: B737-800 Captain reported that the addition of a cockpit printer resulted in greatly improved situational awareness.
Narrative: Printed copies of the weight and balance information and preflight performance data made Captain's review of data more clear and precise; enhancing safety. Captain had been off for six weeks; moving slowly through checklists and flows. The improvement in my situational awareness between this particular flight (having the printout) and the others during the same trip was significant; highlighting items on the report and completing an overall review (with all data presented on a single page) allowed me to create a better shared mental model with First Officer. On subsequent flights; returning to paging through FMC screens to review data and conduct checklist; it felt as if crew had returned to a program of haphazard; degraded; antiquated and less precise operations.Recommend installing flight deck printers on all Company aircraft.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.