"Principles and Practice of Aviation Psychology" is an important addition to the literature in aviation psychology. Covering the history of aviation to the actual pilot actions and tasks today, the editors have brought together a wonderful set of contributors who are leaders in this field. The text presents psychological principles and research ...
This trail glazing text deals with human behaviour in the operation of aviation systems. The first part deals with the behavioural engineeirng of airplanes to make them easier and safer to fly. The second major part encompasses the selection, training and evaluation of pilots and the technology.
This book provides an authoritative and practical guide to the assessment, management, treatment and care of pilots and other professional groups within aviation; covering a range of relevant topics, for health and human resources practitioners working in the airline industry. Pilot mental health has, hitherto, been regarded as a specialist topic ...
The papers that make up this volume are derived from presentations at the First International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, and are concered with human factors in transportation systems. The human factors issues involved in air traffic management from the pilot's and the air traffic controller's perspective are ...
This is the formal refereed proceedings of the fifth Australian Aviation Psychology Symposium. The symposium had a diverse range of contributions and development workshops, bringing together practitioners from aviation psychology and human factors, flight operations management, safety managers, pilots, cabin crew, air traffic controllers, ...
This work seeks to extend the boundaries of aviation psychology in two ways: by broadening the focus beyond the flight deck to the whole aviation system; and by discussing relevant theoretical developments. This book addresses: the relationship between what goes on in the flight deck and the wider organizational context; critical safety issues ...
Critical incident stress management (CISM) is now a well-established method in crisis intervention, and one that is clearly needed within aviation. However, there are many peculiarities in this branch of CISM which require thorough consideration. People working in high-risk environments need to be sensitive to others' reactions to critical stress. ...
This is the fifth edited volume of refereed contributions, from an international group of researchers and specialists. Volumes 5 and 6 comprise the edited proceedings of the third international conference on Engineering Psychology Cognitive Ergonomics, organized by Cranfield College of Aeronautics, Edinburgh, Scotland in October 2000. Volume 5 ...
This work comprises the edited and restructured proceedings of the Australian Aviation Psychology Symposium (Nov 1995), divided into four main parts: CRM programmes, situation awareness, automation and systems safety, and cabin safety and maintenance.
This overview of fatigue includes fatigue definitions, the measurement/assessment of fatigue and the performance, mood and safety problems associated with fatigue in the operational setting. The physiological bases of fatigue are discussed, so the reader understands that fatigue is a physiological phenomenon that is not "just a state of mind". ...
This collection of essays examines the stress factors affecting airline professionals, and the human factors that are becoming increasingly recognized as major causes of airplane mishaps. Among the topics discussed are physiological stresses of flight, deregulation in the USA and Canada and its effects on pilots, mandatory retirement, age ...
Flight training and flying are hazardous activities that demand the most of human operators, whether they be pilots or other actors involved in the complex aviation system. This book aims to serve as a handbook for dealing with aviators and other operators, those seen as patients as well as those functioning normally, who nonetheless wish to ...
Provides an advanced basic training in the specific disciplines of aviation psychology: human engineering, selection, training, counselling and accident investigation. Based on the lectures given at the EAAP course-conference in Italy in 1996.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Custom Publishing
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780697584625ISBN:0697584623
Description: Very Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Wraps; 124 pages; Black & white photographs and illustrations; Maps; Textblock is tight with no internal markings and no names; Bright pictorial cover with no tears and no creasing to the spine; Has modest shelf and edge wear; .....(With 7 detailed chapters. Chapter 1: Thinking critically about stress; Chapter 2: Psychology Applied to Aviation; Chapter 3: The Sociological Eye; Chapter 4: Rule Enforcement without Visible Means: Christmas Gift Giving in ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Washington, DC: War Department, 1941.
Description: -Octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wraps. The extremities are darkened & the wraps are lightly bumped. 125 pages. Illustrated in black & white with photographic illustrations, drawings & diagrams. Very good. read more
Edition: Original Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Bruce Publishing Co.
Date Published: 1939
Description: Very Good- Previous owner's name on front cover, few ink underlinings; minor edgewear. "Including the subject of physical fitness". The Official Publication of the Aero Medical Association of the United States. Includes the articles "An analysis of the physiological and psychological characteristics of two hundred Civil Air Line pilots", "The toxicity of carbon monoxide at high altitudes", "Psychology and aviation", and "Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Aero Medical ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Air Defense Command [USAF]
Date Published: no date (circa 1955)
Description: 19p., saddlestitched leaves in folded wraps; 10.5 x 8 inch brochure, spine fold is split. A public relations response to community complaints--noise, land grabs, hazard, and doubtless other fears unvoiced in this text. read more
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