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  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › RISK › Situational Awareness

    communication can enhance situational awareness by helping the pilot develop a mental picture of what is happening. Maintaining situational awareness requires an understanding of the relative significance of all flight related factors and their future impact on the flight. When ... added an additional burden to his or her management in the event of an emergency. To maintain situational awareness, all of the skills involved in ADM are used. Obstacles to Maintaining Situational Awareness Fatigue, stress, and work overload can cause…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Information Management › Enhanced Situational Awareness

    goes through high terrain or prohibited airspace, or if the moving map display fails. A good strategy for maintaining situational awareness information management should include practices that help ensure that awareness is enhanced, not diminished, by the use of automation ... correct destination fed into the navigation system? Callouts—even for single-pilot operations—are an excellent way to maintain situational awareness, as well as manage information. Other ways to maintain situational awareness include: • Perform verification check of all programming. Before…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › RISK › Crew Resource Management (CRM) and Single-Pilot Resource Management

    automation management (AM), controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) awareness, and situational awareness (SA). SRM training helps the pilot maintain situational awareness by managing the automation and associated aircraft control and navigation tasks. This enables the pilot to accurately assess…

  • Chapter 8: Aeronautical Decision-Making in Flight › Analytical Decision-Making

    flight path. While an autopilot is engaged, a pilot’s attention should not disengage. Pilots need to maintain situational awareness and appropriate focus on the progress of the flight at all times. Balancing the use of automation with manual flying…

  • Chapter 14: Airport Operations › Collision Avoidance › Causal Factors of Runway Confusion

    inattention and confusion often are factors contributing to runway incursion, it is important to remain extremely cautious and maintain situational awareness (SA). When instructed to use a runway as a taxiway, do not become confused and take…

  • Chapter 1: Risk Management and Single-Pilot Resource Management › Situational Awareness › Obstacles to Maintaining Situational Awareness

    addition, an awareness of the environmental conditions of the flight, such as spatial orientation of the aircraft and its relationship to terrain, traffic, weather, and airspace should be maintained. To maintain situational awareness, all of the skills involved ... workload management and establishing a productive relationship with ATC can be accomplished by effective resource use. Obstacles to Maintaining Situational Awareness Many obstacles exist that can interfere with a pilot’s ability to maintain situational awareness. For example, fatigue, stress…