Provide a scientifically grounded understanding of human capabilities, human limitations, and human-system interaction in the operational flight environment.

Core Syllabus Areas

• Human factors in aviation, accident statistics, and the role of safety culture.
• Flight physiology, including respiration, hypoxia, hyperventilation, pressure effects, gas laws, vision, hearing, disorientation, and motion effects.
• Man-and-system concepts, including ergonomics, displays, controls, and human-machine interface considerations.
• Health and hygiene, including fatigue, sleep, stress, alcohol, drugs, medication, nutrition, and general fitness.
• Human information processing, perception, attention, memory, and workload.
• Human error, reliability, error chains, and error management principles.
• Decision-making under operational pressure.
• Cockpit management, behavioural aspects, overload and underload, and automation management.

Key Competencies

• Recognise physiological and psychological factors that degrade performance.
• Detect and manage fatigue, stress, and workload threats.
• Understand how errors develop and how they can be trapped or mitigated.
• Apply sound decision-making principles in time-critical situations.
• Manage automation and cockpit resources without losing situational awareness.

22 Pages.