The author recounts a demanding work schedule combining A&P school, aircraft maintenance, and Naval Reserve duty, highlighting the impact of fatigue on performance. The article introduces the concept ...

Along with its ambitious heavy maintenance consolidation plan, Alaska Airlines has initiated a new human factors program in order to improve quality control ...

Looking to train your technicians on fatigue and other human factors that affect safe maintenance? Richard Komarniski, president of Grey Owl Aviation Consultants, Inc., has over 30 years experience in ...

In the book “mindFly – Follies, Realities & Human Factors”, veteran pilot and aviation safety expert Captain Amit Singh offers a rare and incisive look into the psychology of flying. With over three ...

As unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) continue to rapidly evolve to meet the needs of our Army, so has their evolution into our aviation formations. Our combat aviation brigades saw exponential growth ...

For more than two decades, experts have been pleading for the human factors lessons learned from aviation safety to be applied to the growing toll of iatrogenic injuries in medicine. Now a new set of ...

Aviation is a complex system, and the investigation and modelling of aviation accident causation can suffer from being artificially manipulated into non-complex models and methods. This book addresses ...