E-raamat: Flight Stress: Stress, Fatigue and Performance in Aviation

Another in the excellent library of aviation safety texts...with copious examples from accident and incident reports and numerous real life¯ case quotations...this is essential reading for serious aviation professionals and dedicated researchers, medical personnel and registered aviation medical examiners, psychologists and human factors specialists, training captains, senior pilots and engineers, air traffic controllers, dispatches and operations staff. Occupational Safety and Health ...the style and content of this book should be of interest to all dedicated pilots. Flight Safety Bulletin ...each chapter is well laid out and contains an extensive bibliography. Equally useful are the detailed accident/incident reports that accompany each section...As well as the expected topics (such as fear of flying, stress and arousal and fatigue), the authors also cover areas usually neglected in traditional reviews of this topic, such as stress in air traffic control¯, organizations, stress and accidents¯ and automation and boredom¯. I found these chapters particularly interesting...I would recommend the purchase of this volume for any practitioner working with pilots, or those doing performance related research. It is a useful source for teaching and the bibliographers are extensive. Canadian Society of Aerospace Medicine Journal (Canadian Aerospace Society Newsletter) This is one of those books which you begin by dipping into and then find impossible to put them down...this is a weighty tome which should be on the bookshelf of every practitioner of aviation medicine or human factors and should be accessible to all involved in aviation. Aerospace Here is an excellent reference and resource book about one of the more difficult areas in aerospace medicine...this book is a scholarly, well-written, thoroughly referenced, critical review of stress and the psychology of aviation... Aviation, Space and Environmental Med