Flight Psychology: Case Study Of Human Factors

1.0 Introduction

Human factors embrace all the factors that can affects people and their actions. They are the personal skills and social skills, for example, decision making and communication which focus on the technical skills. These are crucial for efficient and safe aviation. The study of human factors relates referring scientific knowledge about our human body and human mind to help us understand human limitations and capabilities. The purpose of human factors knowledge is to help us reduce the probability of errors and to increase error tolerant and more resilient methods. (Systems and Factors, 2016)
The example of a case study about this human factor is that a ship done its normal checks and started to come aboard an installation to

It usually involves how our organs function, what keeps them from functioning in a irregular situation and the things that pilot need to do to protect these functions before and during flight. Therefore, flight physiological is an inherent part of human factors and safe flight and it cause a straight effects on our performance.
As we all know, pilots and passengers who came upon physiological challenges are called flight physiology when it is affected by the stresses and environment of the flight. Above 12,000 feet above sea level is the limit physiological zone that the human physiology has been evolutionary adapted to be. If it exceeds this zone, the physiological compensatory mechanisms may have a difficult time coping with the stress of the altitude.
Normally, the military pilots will receive exercises in high altitude in a low pressure chambers which it is called hypobaric to feign the early stages of hypoxia which also known as the lack of oxygen inside the body. The tests supply evidence of the fast deterioration of motor skills and critical thinking ability when the pilot attempt to fly above 10,000 feet above sea level without any supplemental oxygen. In addition, hypoxia will also cause hyperventilation because our human body tries to increase breathing