Abstract
Weather is a big deal in the world of aviation, especially in general aviation (GA) operations. Previous research identified that GA incurs the majority of weather-related accidents within civil aviation operations. In fact, GA weather-related accidents have a high fatality rate. Accidents associated with flights approved for visual flight rules (VFR) that ended up in instrument meteorologic conditions (IMC) account for the majority of weather-related fatalities. Accident data also indicate private pilots with low experience and pilots without their instrument rating were the most likely to fly VFR into IMC. This chapter describes and discusses contributing factors to the weather-related accidents in general aviation from a human factors perspective. This includes discussing the cognitive underpinnings to the weather preflight planning process, as well as how as situation awareness, decision making, risk assessment, and cognitive cues may play a role.
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