Abstract
Physiological factors can easily affect a pilot performance and jeopardise the safety of the flight. Therefore, the research is based on the observation of student pilots' decision making and flying abilities during different flight conditions predetermined for the flight in simulation training device. The use of flight simulation training device is helpful as it is possible to vary flight parameters and consequently observe the pilot's reactions to different situations. The combination of pilot error statistics and subjective questionnaire enable to determine the influence of external conditions on the pilot's psychological state and subsequent performance during critical flight tasks.
Highlights
Many health factors and physiological effects are linked with flying
Most of the worst pilot performances that still occur are attributed to human errors and it is inevitable to analyse human error, workload, stress and other physiological conditions and their relationship with pilot performance during flight tasks [1]
For the purpose of this research, we focus on the performance measurements monitoring pilot behaviour during changing predetermined physiological conditions in order to seek and determine the level of successful or unsuccessful flight tasks
Summary
Many health factors and physiological effects are linked with flying. There are a large variety of factors that may cause unsafe behaviour that will cause unsafe flight operations. Most of the worst pilot performances that still occur are attributed to human errors and it is inevitable to analyse human error, workload, stress and other physiological conditions and their relationship with pilot performance during flight tasks [1]. The human being is most reliable under adequate levels of workload that do not change suddenly, unpredictable and immediately when the workload is excessive [2]. Errors arise from the inability of the human operators to deal with high information rates that come from the external environment [3]
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