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  • Chapter 4: Effective Communication › Barriers to Effective Communication › External Factors

    These factors may include physiological, environmental, and psychological elements. To communicate effectively, the instructor should consider the effects of these factors and mitigate them where possible. Physiological external factors include biological conditions such as hearing loss, injury, physical illness…

  • Chapter 4: Effective Communication › Barriers to Effective Communication › Overuse of Abstractions

    outside of the instructor’s control that prevent a process or activity from being carried out properly. These factors may include physiological, environmental, and psychological elements. To communicate effectively, the instructor should consider the effects of these factors and mitigate…

  • Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Health and Physiological Factors Affecting Pilot Performance › Treatment of Hypoxia

    Treatment of Hypoxia Treatment for hypoxia includes flying at lower altitudes and…

  • Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Health and Physiological Factors Affecting Pilot Performance › Hypoxic Hypoxia

    Hypoxia Hypoxia means “reduced oxygen” or “not enough oxygen.” Although any tissue…

  • Chapter 8: Aviation Instructor Responsibilities and Professionalism › Flight Instructor Responsibilities › Ensuring Learner Skill Set

    Physiological Obstacles for Flight Learners Although most learner pilots have been exposed to air travel, they may not have flown in light, training aircraft. Consequently, learners may react to unfamiliar noises or vibrations, or experience unfamiliar sensations ... force, or an uncomfortable feeling in the stomach. To teach effectively, instructors cannot ignore the existence of these negative factors, nor should they ridicule learners who are adversely affected. These negative sensations can usually be overcome by understanding the nature…

  • Chapter 8. Medical Facts for Pilots › Section 1. Fitness for Flight › 8-1-7. Aerobatic Flight

    with practice, any maneuver will have decreasing effect. Tolerance to G forces is dependent on human physiology and the individual pilot. These factors include the skeletal anatomy, the cardiovascular architecture, the nervous system, the quality of the blood, the general ... condition can reduce tolerance to accelerative forces. f. The above information provides pilots with a brief summary of the physiologic effects of G forces. It does not address methods of “counteracting” these effects. There are numerous references on the subject…