We're Doomed
I wasn't planning to talk about Day 2 of Human Factors Training, but I had a few people who asked about the survival scenario and I thought, Why not?
Most of Day 2 was listening to concepts until near the end. Then we were given a scenario:
The items were: a flashlight with four batteries, big jack knife, aeronautical chart of the area, big plastic raincoat, magnetic compass, compresses and bandages, 45 caliber gun with bullets, red and white parachute, bottle of salt tablets, 1 liter of water per person, book titled "Edible Desert Animals", pair of sunglasses per person, 1 liter bottle of alcohol (96%), light summer coat per person, makeup mirror.
Once we came up with our list, we were told to get into our tractor building teams and do the scenario as a group. We all had to agree on the order of the items. This is were the We're doomed comment came from because we failed tractor building, now we have to survive as a group?
We agreed on water being first on the list very easily. We disagreed on the compass and the map. I lost that argument and they became items 2 and 3.
I won the argument on the makeup mirror.One of the guys thought it should be number 15 (last) on our list. I said, "Dude, we need the mirror! It's the bat signal." I formed my fingers into a rectangle, held them up to the ceiling, and rocked them back and forth.
We had a few other debates about the raincoat (I said to collect water/moisture from the cacti that we attacked with our big jack knife), about the salt pills (no!), and about the light summer jacket. I said it didn't get that cold in the desert unless you were in the high desert and I didn't think Sonora was at elevation. It's too bad I won that argument because the jacket wasn't to keep warm, it was to keep the sun from baking us. Per the experts.
That's what we were given after we worked in our groups. The order that the experts ranked the items. They didn't put water first. The makeup mirror was number one for them.
After we got the experts' list, we had to go through and do some math, comparing the difference between our ranks and the experts' ranks. We added them together and got a total. As an individual, I had a 52. As a group, we scored 50. (The lower the score, the better.)
My tractor building group scored the best of the entire class. We were still doomed, though.
The experts said to stay with the wreckage. We planned to walk out after it cooled off. Wrong decision, but we had more of the correct equipment than any other group.
Most of Day 2 was listening to concepts until near the end. Then we were given a scenario:
You're on a plane that crashed in the Sonora desert. The pilot and copilot are dead, but you and your classmates are unharmed. Your plane was 70 miles off the course that was filed prior to take off and you crashed 50 miles southwest of a mining camp. You have 15 items with which to survive. Rank them from most important to least important.
The items were: a flashlight with four batteries, big jack knife, aeronautical chart of the area, big plastic raincoat, magnetic compass, compresses and bandages, 45 caliber gun with bullets, red and white parachute, bottle of salt tablets, 1 liter of water per person, book titled "Edible Desert Animals", pair of sunglasses per person, 1 liter bottle of alcohol (96%), light summer coat per person, makeup mirror.
Once we came up with our list, we were told to get into our tractor building teams and do the scenario as a group. We all had to agree on the order of the items. This is were the We're doomed comment came from because we failed tractor building, now we have to survive as a group?
We agreed on water being first on the list very easily. We disagreed on the compass and the map. I lost that argument and they became items 2 and 3.
I won the argument on the makeup mirror.One of the guys thought it should be number 15 (last) on our list. I said, "Dude, we need the mirror! It's the bat signal." I formed my fingers into a rectangle, held them up to the ceiling, and rocked them back and forth.
We had a few other debates about the raincoat (I said to collect water/moisture from the cacti that we attacked with our big jack knife), about the salt pills (no!), and about the light summer jacket. I said it didn't get that cold in the desert unless you were in the high desert and I didn't think Sonora was at elevation. It's too bad I won that argument because the jacket wasn't to keep warm, it was to keep the sun from baking us. Per the experts.
That's what we were given after we worked in our groups. The order that the experts ranked the items. They didn't put water first. The makeup mirror was number one for them.
After we got the experts' list, we had to go through and do some math, comparing the difference between our ranks and the experts' ranks. We added them together and got a total. As an individual, I had a 52. As a group, we scored 50. (The lower the score, the better.)
My tractor building group scored the best of the entire class. We were still doomed, though.
The experts said to stay with the wreckage. We planned to walk out after it cooled off. Wrong decision, but we had more of the correct equipment than any other group.
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