How Pilots Represent Risk
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Pilots are front-line operators in a system, civil aviation, which is inherently risky. For good reasons, much effort has been devoted to the tasks of creating objective measures of risk and of devising systems of risk management in aviation as well as other process industries. It is commonly assumed that risk perception and risk management are elements of pilot decision making. But what do we know about how pilots represent risk? An understanding of how pilots make decisions in the presence of risk or under conditions of uncertainty could surely benefit from a better understanding of how pilots represent risk.
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