Understanding pilots’ cognitive processes for making in-flight decisions under stress
| dc.contributor.author | Li, Wen-Chin | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Harris, Don | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Hsu, Yueh-Ling | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Wang, Thomas | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-24T05:04:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-01-24T05:04:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-09-16T00:00:00Z | - |
| dc.description.abstract | In flight operations, pilots are confronted with many problems that occur in continually changing situations that create a level of stress and lead to accidents. To make rapid decisions, pilots make decisions using a holistic process involving situation recognition and pattern matching. This research investigated 157 pilots from a B747 fleet to find out how pilots make in-flight decision in such stressful situations. The research method is based upon evaluating the situational awareness, risk management, response time and applicability of four different decision-making mnemonics in six in-flight scenarios. The data obtained in this research suggests that the FOR-DEC may be suitable as a basis for providing training which will be applicable for covering all basic types of decision. FOR-DEC was evaluated as the most applicable mnemonic-based decision making process across the six different scenarios used. It also had significantly superior performance compared with the other three mnemonic-based methods evaluated (SHOR, PASS & DESIDE) when making recognition-primed decisions, response selection decisions, non-diagnostic procedural decisions, and problem-solving decisions. | en_UK |
| dc.identifier.citation | Li, W-C., Harris, D., Hsu, Y-L., Wang, T. Understanding pilots’ cognitive processes for making in-flight decisions under stress. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual International Seminar: Investigation a Shared Process, Salt Lake City, Utah, 12-15 September 2011. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/8148 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_UK | - |
| dc.subject | Accident Prevention, Aeronautical Decision-making, Human Errors, Stress, Time Pressure | en_UK |
| dc.title | Understanding pilots’ cognitive processes for making in-flight decisions under stress | en_UK |
| dc.type | Conference paper | - |