Aviation Psychology In Practice - 97 edition

''This book offers a timely contribution to the aviation psychology scene. The editors and contributors cover a wide range of the subject and have excellent experience to draw upon. Helen Muir, Curtis Graeber and Earl Wiener are particularly well known names. . . . The layout is clear and easily understandable, the price is reasonable, and the editors are to be congratulated on their achievement.''

-- Aerospace

''Telfer argues for the sound theoretical base for practice as well as for the professionalization of aviation instruction. This book makes a significant advance in both these directions. It is the most authoritative text on aviation psychology and human factors to date, and is of utmost relevance to those who have a role in human resource training, management, and instructional evaluation in aviation and other related areas. I recommend the book highly as a required text.''

-- K. Victor Ujimoto, PhD, MCASI, from Centre for Information Technology Research at University of Guelph, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal, September 1994, Volume 4, No. 3.

''This book would readily serve as a text book for an Introductory Aviation/Psychology course, as well as an excellent refresher for those involved in the practice of aviation psychology. The book is printed on good quality paper; it is well bound and benefits from numerous tables and figures. It certainly seems worth its price and will return many benefits to those who invest in it.''

-- Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine

Ashgate Publishing Co. Web Site, December, 2000

List of contributors
Foreword
List of abbreviations
Introduction

Applied psychology and aviation: Issues of theory and practice

Part 1, The Aviation Socio-technical System: Organizational safety culture: Implications for aviation practice

Philosophy, policies, procedures and practice: The four 'P's of flight deck operations
The management of safety on the airport ramp
Human error in aircraft maintenance
Passenger safety

Part 2, Learning from Accidents and Incidents: Investigation of human factors: The link to accident prevention

Using voluntary incident reports for human factors evaluations

Part 3, New Theoretical Models: Behaviour analysis and aviation safety

Cognitive Task Analysis in air traffic controller and aviation crew training
Aeronautical Decision Making: The next generation
Shared problem models and flight crew performance
Stress and crew performance: Challenges for aeronautical decision making training

Part 4, The Delivery of Training: Crew Resource management: Achieving enhanced flight operations

Improving aviation instruction

Index.