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The aviation industry has progressed a lot in terms of technological advancements. These advancements are continuously demanding changes in the nature of airplane and are consequently increasing pilot’s work.
Airplanes industry is undergoing through the growth process, resulting in airplanes and pilots being the target of continuous process improvement plan. The result of these advancements are clearly evident when we compare the features and technologies incorporated in a traditional airplane with today’s airbus A350 or A380.
Moreover, the advancement of technology in the aircraft industry has further brought in the concept of automation in the aviation industry. A novice observer might call it “wow” and declare that “automation and advancement in technology have reduced pilot’s work” but for trained eyes “that includes certified pilots” clearly know that such sort of advancements and improvements demands more awareness and eventually increases one’s responsibilities and work.
The substantial growth of the aviation industry can easily be seen by the remarkable feature present in the modern airplanes such as A-350 and A380.How different human factors demand emerge
Airbus A-380 can accommodate up to 853 passengers per flight and uses advanced technology and is huge in terms of size and has a robust body (Airbus, The A-380 programmer, EADS 2006). The A380 has reduced traffic congestions at the crowded airports and is accommodating more passengers with lesser flights. Hence, it is “doing more with less” (Aviation benefits, 2007).
The aircraft like A-350 and A-380 makes use of the digital communication in order to exchange any information that includes weather, load control, cross checking, handling information of cockpit selectors, etc.
This different mode of communication and advanced features of aircraft effects pilot’s task too regarding aircraft handling. Moreover, the increase in passenger is directly related to the increase in medical events, which further changes pilot’s task.
The introduction of automation and technological advancements in the aviation industry has provided several benefits (as mentioned above) and has helped in attaining better control but these benefits are bringing in some disadvantages too.
Curry 1980 argues and name these disadvantages as “price/amount”, a price which is resulting in different human factor demands and is being paid by the pilot’s in terms of skill degradation, increased workload, need of specialized trainings, reduced awareness of the situation and incompatibility of cockpit with the controlling systems etc. (Wiener and Curry, 1980).
It is further observed that when the systems get more advanced and complex, in case of emergencies when things go wrong more loss is encountered (Wickens, 2008)
Moreover, the improvement in technology results in more human failures (Dahlstrom, N. 2008).The demand in pilot’s task increases with the advancement of technology, although it was thought that it will reduce pilot’s workload and will increase safety but the opposite has been observed (Green, R.G, 1996). How different human factors demand emerge
The disadvantages that the pilots have to face due to the advancement in technology or improvised nature of airplanes include skill degradation of their work, increased mental workload and reduced situation awareness. A brief description of all these is provided in the upcoming section.
The aim of this paper is to address the statement that “how different human factor demands emerge from the nature of airplanes “or in other words the statement can be framed as “how pilot’s task changes because the nature of airplane.”
I will particularly provide the answer to this stimulating debate by interviewing 15 pilots and will frame my answer according to their opinions and the research results.
The working title of this thesis is
“How different human factor demands emerge from the nature of an airplane.” The case of an airbus planes pilot’s task.
In order to evaluate answer for the above method, SMIE approach is used. SMIE (stands for subject matter industry expert) approach involves an expert who has special regarding or knowledge on a particular job. This approach is generally used when the data on a specific topic is quite limited and so is the case with this research.
there is a lack of literature in this area which can evaluate the relation between the advanced airplanes like A-350 and A-380 and emerging human factor demands primarily based on pilot’s task hence, to understand fully the impact of changing nature of airplane over the pilot’s job, the pilots of airbus A-350 and A-380 are interviewed.
The dissertation will start with an introduction which will explain how changing nature of airplanes is affecting human factor demands. The literature review will then address some important theories that include skill degradation, flight deck design, HIP, workload, situation awareness, decision making and error and CRM and the implication of pilot’s task.
The methodology section will analyze the method that is being used to carry out the thesis process. The analysis section will analyze and discuss the findings that were obtained. The conclusion section will then summarize all the findings that were obtained as a result of interviewing…..
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