Simplified Vigilance Metrics
Russian scientists propose an alternative method to predict individual pilots’ fatigue on long-haul airline flights.
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Fitness for Duty, Human Factors
‘Sensitive Subject’
Researchers find reports of pilot depression vary according to gender and cultural influences.
In the Dark
Unique perceptual errors permeate all phases of night flight.
Lining Up Swiss Cheese Holes
Aviation Week’s John Croft discusses how the holes in the Swiss cheese can line up if the pilot isn’t careful. Click here to read.
Failure to Communicate
Hearing — and understanding — the spoken word is crucial to safe flight.
Inadvertent Errors
Cognitive limitations in human perception, attention, memory and decision making play a role in many aviation accidents.
Fatigue, Aviation Research, Human Factors
Different Strokes
Researchers say long-haul pilots face a different set of sleep-related problems than their short- and medium-haul colleagues.
Fitness for Duty, Aviation Research, Human Factors
No Clear Pattern
Research fails to identify ways of predicting or preventing pilot suicides and murders.
Fitness for Duty, Human Factors
The Rogue Pilot Phenomenon
Safety specialists inevitably struggle to comprehend murder and/or suicide attributed to a flight crewmember.