AVP 340 - Human Factors in Flight Description: Psychological aspects of flight crew performance and fundamental concepts of crew resource management.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: AVP 242 and AVP 337.
Credits: (4)
Learner Outcomes, Activities and Assessments
Learner Outcome
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Activity (optional)
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Assessment
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Upon successful completion of AVP 340 Human Factors in Flight, the student will be able to:
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The student will:
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1. Summarize the major visual and auditory perceptual limitations that affect pilot performance, including:
* visual illusions for all phases of flight including black hole conditions, runway and terrain slope, runway dimensions and lighting, flat light and sector whiteout
* visual flight at night including hazards common to takeoff, cruise and approach/landing
* perception of controls and displays
* auditory misperception including role of ambiguity, nonstandard phraseology, party-line information, expectancy and readback/hearback problems
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Participate in class and group discussions; answer questions from the class lecture notes, textbook, and other assigned readings; answer questions from midterm and final examinations; and, write a research safety article covering one of the human factors limitations discussed in class.
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2. Summarize the major cognitive limitations that affect pilot performance, including:
* Attention, vigilance, and mental workload
* Working and long term memory
* Situational awareness
* Aeronautical decision making/judgement
* Hazardous attitudes: anti-authority, resignation, macho, invulnerability, impulsivity
* Decision biases: availability, gambler’s fallacy, ability, optimistic, anchoring and adjustment, framing, confirmation, overconfidence, entrapment, and hindsight biases
* The human operator-automation/technology interface
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Participate in class and group discussions; answer questions from the class lecture notes, textbook, and other assigned readings; answer questions from midterm and final examinations; and, write a research safety article covering one of the human factors limitations discussed in class.
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3. Provide examples of how perceptual and cognitive limitations exhibited by flight crew were contributory to aircraft accidents and/or incidents and identify strategies necessary to avoid or effectively manage these limitations in flight.
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Participate in class and group discussions; answer questions from the class lecture notes, textbook, and other assigned readings; answer questions from midterm and final examinations; and, write a research safety article covering one of the human factors limitations discussed in class.
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4. Identify ways in which social influences can negatively affect pilot performance, including the role of:
* group norms, roles, rank and status
* conformity, peer and supervisory pressure
* obedience to authority & group think
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Participate in class and group discussions; answer questions from the class lecture notes, textbook, and other assigned readings; answer questions from midterm and final examinations; and, write a research safety article covering one of the human factors limitations discussed in class.
Evaluate a case study using the SHELL model to determine the multi-level causal factors of an aircraft accident; and, suggest mitigation strategies that may have been used at the various levels to reduce the probability of this accident occurring.
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5. List and explain the major elements of effective crew resource management (CRM), including:
* Resource management (information, aircraft, people)
* Interpersonal communication (inquiry, advocacy, listening, conflict resolution, critique)
* Team performance (trans-cockpit authority gradient, relation-task orientation, assertiveness, synergy)
* Decision making and risk assessment
* Leadership and followership
* Stress Management
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Participate in class and group discussions; answer questions from the class lecture notes, textbook, and other assigned readings; answer questions from midterm and final examinations; and, write a research safety article covering one of the human factors limitations discussed in class.
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