FEEDBACKS HPL – « Julien K doc »

I made this document in order to « regroup » the few recent feedbacks in Human Performance. Be
aware this document may have some error. I recommend for this Exam to use :
ATPLGs & ATPLQuestion

20 MAY (my exam)

Pretty fair exam, ATPLQuestion bank, last seen in ATPLGs and this summary of recent feedbacks helped me. I
passed with 91%.

• What level of sound can induce NIHL

o A sudden exposure to noise above 120dB, and continous over 85dB
o A sudden exposure to noise below 90dB, and continous over 85dB
o A continous exposure to noise below 65db and ageing effect
o A continous exposure to noise over 85dB, sudden exposure below 15dB.

• When travelling to tropical countries/areas what should be avoided to prevent

gastrointestinal upset ?
o Reheated or partially cooked food
o Vegetables but there is no constraints on fruits
o Drinking local water but it’s okay if you brush your teeth
o Local meats, better off eating seafood.

• Functions of CNS, PNS and ANS

o CNS consist of the brain and spinal cord. The PNS provides the connection
to the limbs and organs. The ANS governs the involuntary function of
internal organs
o The CNS connects the brain to the rest if the body, PNS is responsible for
internal organs, ANS governs the voluntary control of internal organs.
o The CNS integrates all parts of the body. The PNS connects the brain via
the spinal cord to all internal organs. The ANS is responsible for organ and
muscle control.
o CNS, ANS and PNS are chemical organisation inside the body controlled by
the brain.

• Which of the following are monocular cues for depth perception ?

o Apparent foreshortening, stereopsis, and motion parallax
o Obscuration, texture and atmospheric perspective.
o Accomodation, texture and atmospheric perspective.
o Linear perspective, convergence and obscuration

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• What is the main cause of conductive deafness
o Prolonged exposure to High Frequency sounds, such as turbine-engine noise.
o An infectious disease of the inner ear that affects for example balance and
hearing.
o A combination of lifestyle (ex : Smoking) and environmental factors (ex : stress).
o A blockage of the outer or middle ear (ex : wax) or fluid in the middle ear.

• How many bouts of REM sleep typically occur in an 8hour sleep period ?
o 4 or 5
o 6 or 7
o 2 or 3
o 8 or 9

• On a snowy day in 1982, Air ontario aircraft crashed into Potomac river shortly
after take-off from Washington airport after it departed with ice on the wings.
The cabin crew knew about icing due to passengers commenting on it but were
resistant to tell the pilots. What kind of error is this ?
o Social environment
o Ergonomic
o Economic
o Knowledge Based

• How does stress affect arousal?

o Stress increases arousal up to optimum
o Stress increases arousal beyond optimum
o Stress decreases arousal prior to optimum
o « Aller Paris Saint Germain »
• Nasal decongestant spray is a non-prescription drug for cold relieff. One of the
common side effects of such drug is :
o To suffer from hallucinations
o Drowsiness
o Impairment of cerebral function
o Diarrhoea

• To avoid being dehydrated, a pilot should drink water to :

o Absorb nutrients
o Avoid hypoxia
o Stock waste products during the flight
o Regulate glucose

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 • After SNORKELING into the ocean with a depth of more than 10m, how long
should you wait for the next flight ?
o 12 hours
o 24 hours
o No waiting time
o 48 hours

• [SELECT 3] Alcoholism dependancy is more frequent depending on :

o Genetics
o Race
o Countries selling cheap alcohol
o Social environment

• What should a pilot do to prevent spatial disorientation during a turn.

o Moving head to the front and then to the back several times to get
adaptad to the turn and prevent illusion
o Rely on the Seat-of-the-Pants sense
o Rely entirely on the indication if the flight instrument.
o Look out to the furthest point to see the horizon.

• Whilst taxiing towards the runway, the pilot starts his power checks
approaching intersection E3. ATC then clear the aicraft for take-off. The pilot
replies saying he cannot take-off as he isn’t prepared for departure as of yet.
What kind of behaviour is this ?
o Anti-authoritative
o Over-confidence
o Self discipline
o Unprofessional

• SUBJECTS SEEN but can’t remember the question :

o Automation (something related on what not to do while flying highly
automated aircraft – Multi select question).
o proprioceptive / somatogynal / Oculogravic / Somatogravic / Coriollis
o Mode & Situationnal Awareness
o Groupthink / Riskyshift (=involve more risk)

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15 MAY
• When is required to use 100% oxygen under pressure?
o 20000 ft
o 35000 ft
o 40000 ft
o 50000 ft
• On a snowy day in 1982, Air ontario aircraft crashed into Potomac river shortly
after take-off from Washington airport after it departed with ice on the wings. The
cabin crew knew about icing due to passengers commenting on it but were
resistant to tell the pilots. What kind of error is this ?
o Social environment
o Ergonomic
o Economic
o Knowledge Based

• When travelling to tropical countries/areas what should be avoided to prevent

gastrointestinal upset ?
o Reheated or partially cooked food
o Vegetables but there is no constraints on fruits
o Drinking local water but it’s okay if you brush your teeth
o Local meats, better off eating seafood.

• [SELECT 3] A pilot doesn’t have any Instrument Rating, he doesn´t divert when in
IMC and eventually ends up contacting ATC for help.
o Option 1 (correct)
o Option 2 (correct)
o Option 3 (correct)
o When flying in IMC, there is plenty of time to make a decision

• CRM is mostly concerned with the cognitive and interpersonnal skills needed to
manage the flight within an organisated aviation system. In this context, cognitive
skills are defined as the mental processes used for :
o Gaining and maintaining situational awareness for solving problems and
decision making.
o Acquiring technical knowledge and skills required to fly and operate an
aircraft.
o Establishing the required technical skills to complete the mission successfully.
o Defining a proper interpersonal framework to establish effective
communication among the crew members.

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• Which are some of the most critical types of perceptuals illusions ?
o Geometric illusion (depth perception), somatosensory illusion (autokinesis),
vestibular illusion (feeling dizzy).
o Visual illusion (blind spot), kinaesthetic (the leans), auditory illusion (missed
radio call).
o Haptic illusion (colour blind), Vestibular illusion (graveyard spiral), sensory
illusion (spatial disorientation).
o Coriollis illusion (constant turning), neurological illusion (after-images),
auditory illusion (hearing voices).

• [SELECT] A multiple choice question (gave 7 possible answers but didnt specify how
many had to be right, just select the correct ones) about description of two way
communication.
• An instructor that practices emergencies a lot is probably going to act better when
in a real emergency than a pilot that doesn´t practice it enough, relating skills:
o long term memory is virtually unlimited but if information is not retrieves skills will
be lost and practice and training is required
o Resignation description
o Invulnerability (pilots believe nothing will happen to them)
o Obedience description

• [SELECT 2] Advantages of a pressurized cabin:

o Avoid symptoms of coronary disease
o Prevent Hypoxia
o Improve Decompression sickness
o Prevent Expansion of gases in the intestines

• After a decompression to 43 000 FT the TUC (Time of Useful Consciousness) will be

approximately:
o 5 to 15 seconds
o 60-90 seconds
o 30-45 seconds
o 45-60 seconds

• TUC (Time of Useful Consciousness) is:

o The time before becoming unconscious at a sudden pressure loss
o The time after pressure loss until decompression sickness sets in
o The time between the start of hypoxia and death
o The length of time during which an individual can act with both mental and
physical efficiency; measured from the moment at which he/she is exposed
to hypoxia

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• What influences the behaviour of a pilot?
o Social and peer pressures
o Peer pressure and character
o Past experience and education
o Personality and attitude

• Which of the following is an evironmental threat according to the TEM model ?

o Aircraft hardware design
o A contaminated Runway
o A crew-scheduling error
o A maintenance error

• Which are the monocular cues for depth perception ?

o Apparent foreshortening, stereopsis and motion parallalax
o Obscuration, texture and atmospheric perspective
o Accommodation, texture and atmospheric perspective
o Linear perspective, convergence and obscuration

• What do you want to avoid the most abroad?

o reheated and undercooked food
o Local water but ok to brush teeth.

• What is the percentage of oxygen into the blood ?

o 30 %
o 90%
o 100 %
o 75 %

• High altitude flight operation expose flight crew to increased level of cosmic
radiation. The order of there relative imoportance :
o Altitude, latitude, normal solar activity and random solar activity (solar
flares).
o Altitude, latitude, solar activity (solar flares), height of the ionosphere.
o Altitude, airspeed, earth magnetic field, solar activity (solar flares).

• SUBJECTS SEEN by this student in his exam :

o Types of errors
o Lapse = Error due to memory failure (ex : forget smthg)
o Slip = Error due to attention failure (ex : gear instead of flaps)
o Mistake = Original intention is wrong (fault).
o Lots on Threat error management definitions
o Ear parts definitions
o hammer, anvil part of what
o Vestibular apparatus
o jet Lag definition

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2 MAY
• You are extremly bad weather . You are Pilot flying and have one passenger being
impatient because « we should have land one hour ago ». You proceed aboard
your Single engine aircraft and do a shallow circuit, you loose your aispeed and get
into a dive killing the passenger and yourself, what type of behaviour the pilot was
experiencing ?
o anxiety
o infallibility
o impulsively

• A commander believes that the co-pilot has made a radio-call, but it will not be
made for another five minutes, due to poor prioritisation. The commander does
not ask for the Co-pilot to confirm that he made the radio call Which option best
describes the commander’s situation?
o An action slip
o A false mental model
o Confirmation bias
o Stress

15 APRIL
• What is safety?
o Reducing risk to lowest acceptable means commercially viable

• What alt do you require pressure breathing with 100% oxygen

o 50,000ft
o 40,000ft
o 30 000ft
o 20, 000ft

• What are the effects of hypoxia

o Euphoria, lack of concentration, fatigue
o Pain in the joints
o Low blood pressure

• At what alt does critical stage start?

o 20,000ft
o 15 000ft
o 10 000ft
o 5 000ft

• How does stress affect arousal?

o Stress increases arousal up to optimum
o Stress increases arousal beyond optimum
o Stress decreases arousal prior to optimum

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• Flight in VMC. Enroute to destination airfield in mountainous terrain an
instrument fails. You decide to continue anyway. As pilot get closer, weather
worsens to IMC conditions. Pilot decides to continue and crashes into
mountain. What type of error is this?
o Lapse Error
o Design error
o Error chain
o One off error

• Panam/KLM 747 crash in Tenerife

o Explicit comms,
o Explicit comms
o Implicit comms, due to technical limitation such as multiple transmission
on the same frequency
o implicit comms which can lead to confusion due to conflict between
verbal & non-verbal communication

• TUC at 43,000ft
o 5-15 seconds
o 20 minutes
o 30-60 seconds
o 45-90 seconds

• How does inner ear equalise pressurise ?

o Eustachian tube middle ear to throat
o Eustachian tube inner ear to throat
o Otolithic tube inner to throat
o Otolithic tube middle to throat

• Functions of CNS, PNS and ANS

o CNS consist if the brain and spinal cord. The PNS provides the connection
to the limbs and organs. The ANS governs the involuntary function of
internal organs

• Motion sickness is made worse by:

o Maintaining good instrument crosscheck
o Shaking head side to side
o Keeping head against back of seat
o Looking outside at steady horizon

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• Approaching field with thunder, lightning, bad vis and mountains. Captain
cannot see approach lights when nearing minimums, he asks FO if he can see
them. FO points out cross-wind limit is VERY close. Capt says it's not outside of
limits yet. FO thinks he can see lights but isn't sure. Capt says if he can see the
lights then "they can make it". FO "FINALLY" says he can see the lights. What
type of behaviour is this?
o Good teamwork
o NOT group-think
o Group risky-shift, where the decision taken is the not decision if each crew member were by
themselves

• What level of sound can induce NIHL

o One time noise above 120dB, and continue over 85dB
o A sudden exposure to noise below 90dB, and continous over 85dB
o A continous exposure to noise below 65db and ageing effect
o A continous exposure to noise over 85dB, sudden exposure below 15dB.

• Where are cones found?

o Centrally in the fovea
o In the peripheral part of the retina
o In a construction site of bananaland
o In bananaland

• Which of these is an undesirable a/c state in TEM model

o Damage to landing gear after hard landing
o Exceeding ATC speed restirction on approach
o Other answers not relevant
The student Left a comment explaining how I thought a hard landing/exceeding speed
restrictions were both undesirable a/c states cause answers unclear.

• What is the first effect of alcohol on the body?

o State of relaxation
o Enjoying with friends in bananaland
o Other answers

• What is the most efficient method for resolving conflict/prevent conflict :

o Active listening
o Arbitration
o Authoritary
o Tell them to fuck off in bananaland

• How can automation complacency, mode confusion (and one more) be

prevented and improved:
o Stricter regulations
o Company SOPs to be refined more often
o More training in the field of automation and giving pilots a better
understanding of how it works

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 • Define the difference between absolute and relative humidity
o Absolute humidity is the percentage of moisture the air could hold at a
given temperature, whereas relative is the amount of water vapour
relative to standard atmosphere.
o It’s only terminology since these 2 concepts are synonymous. Therefore,
absolute humidity (or relative) is the amount of water vapour that is
present in the air at any given time.
o Absolute humidity is the amount of water vapour per unit volume of air,
whereas relative humidity is the actual amount of moisture per unit
volume of air relative to standard atmosphere
o Absolute humidity is the amount of water vapour in the air, whereas
relative humidity is the actual amount of moisture compared to the
maximum possible amount of moisture at a given temperature

• SUBJECTS SEEN by this student in his exam :

o Binocular vision/depth perception at distance.
o how sound makes it's way through the ear (what parts)
o Confirmation bias
o Circadian rhythm

OTHER QUESTIONS SEEN IN EXAMS :

• Which of the following factors contribute to a safety culture ?

o Developing trust through rewarding good employees and punishing those
who make mistakes
o Safety being primarly an issue imposed on the employees by various
administrative systems
o Encouraging employeeds to report while taking minimum corrective
actions
o The highest levels of management making the necessary ressource
available.

• Which of the following symptoms can mark the onset of hyperventilation?

o Cyanosis (blueing of lips and finger nails)
o Slow rate of breathing
o Dizzy feeling
o Slow heart beat

• During a night flight at 10,000 feet you notice that your visual acuity has decreased. In
this case you can increase your acuity by:
o Scanning sectors of the field of vision
o Closing one eye
o Breathing supplementary oxygen
o Dim the instrument lights

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 • Resonance of the body parts can result from
o Vibrations from 16Hz to 18Hz
o Vibrations from 1Hz to 100Hz
o Angular velocity
o Acceleration along the longitudinal body axis

• Which substances causes rapid corrosion of the aircraft metal strcuture and gives off
highly toxic fumes ?
o Potassium
o Foam of fire extinguisher
o Carbon monoxide
o Mercury

• Syptoms & sign of alcoholism include :

o An altered tolerance to alcohol, repeated withdrawal symptoms, and conflict
with the law.

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