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Briefings · 2025-11-08 · Sora Kim

Checklist drift in gunnery workflow rehearsal

Digital checklists help until they hide skipped steps. We log acknowledgements without shaming individuals.

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gunnery · human factors

Moving from paper to glass exposes a paradox: faster completion times often mask skipped cognitive checks. Our gunnery workflow trainers timestamp each acknowledgement and surface silent skips to instructors as aggregate trends, not individual callouts during the first week of class.

Crews then review the aggregate in a facilitated debrief, linking skips to environmental stressors like alarm floods or concurrent radio traffic.

The approach is slower than auto-scoring trainees, but it preserves psychological safety while still tightening discipline.