HUMAN PERFORMANCE

AND
LIMITATION
 ICAO
“ Human Factors is about people:
it is about people in their working and
living environment and it is about their
relationships with machines,
procedures and with the environment
around them.
It is about their relationship
with other people
Psychology, Antropology,Physiologi, Ergonomy
 Hardware
Safety Efficiency

H
Environment

Software S L E

L
Liveware
 Competent pilot
 Responsibility
 Ability
 Motivation
 A good communicator
 Flexibility
 Physical fitness
 Reliability
 A balanced personality
 A team player
 Calmness under stress
 An eye to detail
 Competency in Risk Assessment
 Com. in the skills of Stress and Crew Management
Aviation has the best safety records
 The risk of death per person per year in a car
accident is
 1 in 10.000 in the UK
 1 in 4.000 in the USA

 The accident rate is approximately :

 1 per million airport movements/
one accident per million legs flown
Causes of Accidents
 CIFT - Controlled Flight into Terrain
Loss of directional control
Poor judgement
Airspeed not maintained
Poor pre-flight planning and
pre-flight decision making

Not maintaining ground clearance

 The phases of flight
most prone to accidents are
Intermediate and Final Approach

Landing

Take - off

Descent
 The most significant
flight safety equipment

GPSW
EGPSW
TICAS