AVP 340 - Human Factors in Flight

• Describe the physiological effects of hypoxia, trapped gas and dissolved gas (DCS) on pilot performance and list or identify strategies necessary to avoid or effectively manage them.
• Identify or describe the major visual and auditory perceptual limitations that affect pilot performance and the strategies necessary to effectively manage them, including: midair collision avoidance, visual illusions, impoverished visual conditions and communication difficulties.
• Compare and contrast the limitations of the vestibular and somatosensory systems and identify the somatogyral and somatogravic illusions they create that lead to spatial disorientation (SD).
• Analyze the effects of noise, poor health choices, fatigue and sleep disruption, and acceleration on pilot performance and identify strategies necessary to reduce their effects.
• Summarize specific examples of how physiological, perceptual, and cognitive limitations, as well as difficulties with automated systems, have contributed to aircraft accidents and/or incidents.
• Critique specific examples of how inadequate flight deck design has contributed to errors made by flight crew and describe principles and/or examples of controls and/or displays that are designed to reduce error.
• Appraise ways to reduce the effects of distractions and forgetfulness on the flight deck.
• Evaluate decision biases, while recall and explain the five hazardous attitudes and their antidotes, and discover their own personal hazardous attitude tendencies.