Pilot's Burden Flight Safety and the Roots of Pilot Error

Name: Pilot's Burden Flight Safety and the Roots of Pilot Error
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ISBN: 9780813828152

ISBN-10: 0813828155

ISBN-13: 9780813828152

Edition: 2000

Authors: Robert N. Buck

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Most aviation accidents are attributed to pilot error - but why does this occur? This book looks critically at a number of factors, including aircraft and cockpit design, the constant growth of aviation regulations, the pressures on the air traffic control systems and computers in planes, to explain the growing demands on pilots.

Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/5/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Preface	p. ix
Acronyms	p. xiii
When Flying Was an Art	p. 3
The Technical Age Commences	p. 9
Technology Means Complexity and New Problems	p. 19
World War II Changes the Game	p. 29
Pilots Add Psychology and Science to Their Skills	p. 34
Postwar Airplanes and Regulations: The Burden Grows	p. 45
Demands on Pilots Increase as Technology Expands	p. 57
The Good Old Days	p. 71
The Jet Age Begins--With Some Relief	p. 80
Learning Jet Flying the Trial-and-Error Way	p. 97
Pilot Authority Erodes	p. 107
Air Traffic Control: The Big Squeeze	p. 120
The FAA: A Paradox	p. 133
Boeing's 747 and New Concepts	p. 147
Weather Dictates--Sometimes Ruthlessly	p. 164
Computers Fly the New Airplanes--or Do They?	p. 180
Psychologists, CRM, and Remaking the Pilot	p. 204
Are Pilots Overpaid Prima Donnas?	p. 216
And Now	p. 229
Selected Bibliography	p. 235
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