Flight Stress - Stress, Fatigue and Performance in Aviation

While stress and fatigue are often dealt with in other books on aviation performance and human factors, these realities of human vulnerability are now increasingly seen as central to the effective conduct of flight operations. Flight Stress provides a comprehensive treatment and a better understanding of stress and fatigue as they relate to aviation. It clarifies and distinguishes the concepts of stress and fatigue as they apply to flight, and expounds sufficient theory to provide a principled basis for the consideration and amelioration of stress effects in aviation.

List of contents

Contents: Concepts of stress; Stress and arousal; Pilot performance and stress; Decision making and communication; Life stress; Stress and pilot personality; Fear and stress extremes; Fatigue in flight operations; Transmeridian flight; Stress in air traffic control; Organizations, stress, and accidents; Automation and boredom.

About the author

Alan F. Stokes is Chairman of the Masters Degree Programme in Cognitive Systems Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA. Kirsten Kite is an Information Consultant and Technical Writer specializing in aviation.

Summary

Provides a comprehensive treatment of how stress and fatigue relate to aviation. This work clarifies and distinguishes the concepts of stress and fatigue as they apply to flight, and expounds sufficient theory to provide a basis for the consideration and amelioration of stress effects in aviation.

Product details

• Authors: Kirsten Kite, Kite Kirsten, Alan F. Stokes
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.07.1997
• EAN: 9780291398574
• ISBN: 978-0-291-39857-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Weight: 793 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Aviation and space engineering; PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, MEDICAL / Occupational & Industrial Medicine, Occupational and industrial psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology, Aviation & space medicine, Aviation and space medicine