ASA Human Factors (eBook)

ASA Human Factors(eBook PD)

General Description

ASA Human Factors - Today’s aviation industry enjoys a remarkable safety record, primarily because it has learned from the mistakes of its past. Through the study of aviation accidents, most of the risks of flying have been identified and the threats they pose to safety can be managed. However, aircraft accidents, such as controlled flight into terrain, loss of control, runway excursions and incursions, and midair collisions still occur, and the hazards of flight remain.

Some accidents happen due to mechanical failure, improper maintenance, or hazardous weather—but the vast majority are caused by pilot action (or inaction). Pilots can commit errors and make decisions that lead to tragic outcomes. Most accidents are not intentional; inadvertent errors made by flight crews arise from normal human physiological, psychological, and psychosocial limitations.

Drawing upon the latest scientific research, aviation safety studies, and accident findings, Human Factors: Enhancing Pilot Performance thoroughly explores the nature of these human limitations and how they affect flight. Most importantly, this book provides best practice countermeasures designed to help pilots minimize their influence on flight performance.

Whether you are a fair-weather private pilot, a new-hire first officer at a regional airline, or a seasoned pilot with thousands of hours under your belt, Human Factors will help you understand why pilots make mistakes and arm you with the knowledge to successfully identify, avoid, and mitigate them.

Textbook Features

• Designed for use as a primary textbook for courses covering the physiological and/or psychological aspects of flight crew performance
• Focuses on the practical application of human factors, primarily written for, and addressing the practical needs of, pilots
• Thorough coverage of the physiological, psychological and psychosocial factors that affect pilot performance
• Abundant examples of how these factors contribute to accidents and incidents
• Suggested best-practice countermeasures pilots can adopt to overcome or manage specific human factor limitations to pilot performance
• Extensive references and helpful resources for each topic
• Several appendices including CICTT’s Aviation Occurrence Categories, Glossary and Abbreviations/Acronyms,
• Over 150 color illustrations
• Aircraft Accident index with more than 130 entries
• FREE additional resources available for instructors who adopt Human Factors into their course curriculum (see Instructor Resources section below)
• Reviewed by experts in aerospace physiology, aviation medicine, experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, advanced flight deck design, pilot human factors education, and by experienced airline pilots representing several different airlines in the United States and Canada.
• Foreword by Jay Hopkins, veteran writer of the Human Factors column for Flying magazine

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Dale Wilson, M.S., is Emeritus Professor of Aviation at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, where he has taught courses in aviation weather, aerospace physiology and psychology, and threat and error management since 1996. He holds a master’s degree in aviation safety from the University of Central Missouri and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Trinity Western University in British Columbia, Canada. Professor Wilson has been a pilot for 40 years, logging several thousand hours in single- and multi-engine airplanes in the United States and Canada. He holds several professional FAA pilot certifications, including Airline Transport Pilot, Certified Flight Instructor, Advanced Ground Instructor, and Instrument Ground Instructor. While in Canada, he held the Airline Transport Pilot License and Class 1 Flight Instructor Rating—the highest of four levels of flight instructor certification.

At Central Washington University, he received several awards for outstanding teaching and scholarship in the Department of Aviation, including the Excellence in Teaching award from the College of Education and Professional Studies. He was also nominated for the Central Washington University Faculty Senate Distinguished Professor of Teaching award. He earned the biennial Master Flight Instructor designation seven times (1999 through 2013), and the Master Ground Instructor from 2013 through 2017, from the National Association of Flight Instructors. He also served as an Aviation Safety Counselor and later as an FAA Safety Team Representative for the FAA’s Spokane Flight Standards District Office.

His primary research interests include visual limitations of flight, pilot decision making, and VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions. He has authored (or co-authored) more than 20 articles related to flight crew human factors in scholarly journals and professional aviation magazines, and has given numerous safety-related presentations at conferences and seminars in the U.S. and Canada.