Press Release: New Textbook! Human Factors

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June 2, 2020

Contact: Brian Snider, brian@asa2fly.com

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Human Factors

Enhancing Pilot Performance

A new textbook by veteran author Dale Wilson provides the aviation community with a comprehensive, engaging, and current guide to the subject of aviation human factors. S ome accidents happen due to mechanical failure, improper maintenance, or hazardous weather—but the vast majority are caused by pilot action (or inaction). Pilots can commit errors and make decisions that lead to tragic outcomes. Most accidents are not intentional; inadvertent errors made by flight crews arise from normal human physiological, psychological, and pyschosocial limitations.

Drawing upon the latest scientific research, aviation safety studies, and accident findings, Human Factors: Enhancing Pilot Performance thoroughly explores the nature of these human limitations and how they affect flight. Most importantly, this college-level textbook provides best-practice countermeasures designed to help pilots minimize their influence on flight performance.

Reviewed by experts in aerospace physiology, aviation medicine, experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, advanced flight deck design, pilot human factors education, and by experienced airline pilots representing several different airlines in the United States and Canada. Foreword by Jay Hopkins, veteran writer of the Human Factors column for Flying magazine. Covers all the information required by aviation university studies. FREE instructor resources are available for instructors who adopt Human Factors into their course curriculum. To learn more, email resource@asa2fly.com .

Hardcover, 8.25" x 10.75", 488 pages, full-color and extensive illustrations throughout, index, glossary, appendices. Available in print and eBook formats, and as a money-saving eBundle (Hardcover + eBook).