Human Performance on the Flight Deck

Harris (HFI Solutions Ltd, UK) presents a systemic overview of the role of human factors in aviation, covering scientific understandings of human information processing, workload, situation awareness, decision making, error, and individual differences; human-associated issues of pilot selection, training and simulation, stress, fatigue, alcohol, and environmental stressors; machine-associated factors such as display design, aircraft control, automation, and human-computer interaction on the flight deck; and managerial issues such as flight deck safety management, airline safety management, and incident and accident investigation. The study seeks to bring the study of human factors beyond sole attention to safety and demonstrate its application to increased operational efficiency. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)