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Sep 26, 2024
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AVP 340 - Human Factors in Flight Description: Physiological and psychological aspects of flight crew performance. Course will be offered every year (Fall, Spring).
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: AVP 241.
Credits: (5)
Learner Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- 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.
Learner Outcomes Approval Date: 4/5/18
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