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Culture and Flight Deck Operations

Culture is widely believed to play an important role in the international aviation system. Given the many factors, including the infrastructure of aviation, that affect aviation safety, the role of culture remains uncertain. It is accepted that culture must exert some influence on the patterns of behavior enacted by flight crews on the flight deck, but different views of culture produce differe...

On the Design of Flight-Deck Procedures

Human Factors Engineering and Flight Deck

This chapter briefly describes Human Factors Engineering and considerations for civil aircraft flight deck design. The motivation for providing the emphasis on the Human Factor is that the operation of future aviation systems will continue to rely on humans in the system for effective, efficient, and safe operation. Pilots, mechanics, air traffic service personnel, designers, dispatchers, and m...

On doctors’ accountability and flight deck safety

People have an inherent tendency to view events as being more predictable than they may actually be, especially in hindsight. This predisposition is known as hindsight bias. However, putting hindsight bias aside, one should consider the discussion in the media raised by the recent Germanwings Flight 9525 air accident from a medical point of view. The probability that aircrafts are used to assis...

Integrating Critical Information on Flight Deck Displays

Honeywell Laboratories has developed a concept for integrating multiple sources of data concerning information outside the aircraft. The concept, ANCOA (Alerting and Notification for Conditions Outside the Aircraft), was conceived as means for reducing error conflicts and establishing a clear prioritization among currently independent and disparate alerting systems for hazards external to the a...