Situational Awarenessness

Both physiological and psychological human related factors have contributed to either an accident or incident within the aviation industry. The classification includes the factors that affect the mental and physical ability of a pilot to operate an aircraft. The specific contributors include workload, situational awareness, familiarity, training and experience, fatigue and memory.
Situational Awareness
The term describes the ability of an individual which in the case is a pilot to beware of their surrounding and the meaning attached to the environment in the present scenario as well as in the future and be able to derive information needed act. The term as used in aviation was meant to assist in understanding the process of attention, perception …show more content…
The systems should be designed to provide information that is user friendly to enable proper access of the needed information needed to improve situational awareness. It is thus important to incorporate the ergonomic requirements. The information process ability is affected by the level of stress and work load. Pilots under high workload and stress may not be in a position to process the presented information to make the needed decisions. Management of stress in pilots thus is critical in improving situational awareness. Although the pilots are provided with the automation system, it is vital to constantly monitor them in order to increase high level of situational awareness. The active monitoring of the instruments and controls provided during the flight process is necessary to enhance high level of situational awareness. The physiological factors such as illness and any sort of medication have the ability to influence the information processing ability. The health and wellbeing of a pilot is thus critical in maintaining high standard of situational awareness and thus should be monitored to make sure information processing ability is maintained. The preconceptions of the prevailing events have diverse effects on the ability to process in formation. The preconception of an element bars the pilots from making better judgment on the actual happening but instead tries to match situations with past occurrences. The pilots using preconceptions may end up not following the laid down traffic control clearance. The training and experience of the pilots also affect their ability to understand the situational awareness. Well trained pilots are likely to make better actions as opposed to those with inadequate training. The individuals with current training are likely to execute