Aviation And Aerospace Decision Making

Airbus was planning to introduce the A380 in direct competition to Boeing 747 to compete in the large aircraft sector. The rivalry between Airbus and Boeing was already intense. Boeing’s market share reduced from 70% in 1974 to 45% in 1990 while Airbus’s market share had increased from 1% to 34% during the same time (Exhibit 5). Encouraged by this increase in market share, Airbus was contemplating the introduction of A380. Development of new product line is extremely expensive in the Aircraft sector. Following is a quantitative analysis of the project to calculate the risks involved in introducing a new line of Aircrafts.

Nicholas Carr, the author of “All Can be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Heads of Machines”, expresses the major concerns towards technology. In this story many crashes and devastating accidents are presented. These accidents could have easily been avoided through the proper knowledge of the air staff members. As a result of technology, pilots are trained less expensively and therefore are unable to react in urgent situations. For example, they now rely on auto-pilot to do more of the directing than they rely on themselves for. This idea is expressed throughout many other stories, demonstrating the lack of knowledge due to the increasing use of technology. One main point that Carr makes is that individuals are constantly starting

To be an airline pilot is most of the time described in terms of duties, job requirements, proficiency, training, employment opportunity, and good salary. These features picture a plain profile that fit into the specification of just an ordinary career. However, an aviation career comes with many challenges than expected. When focusing on statistics about being a pilot, it indicates a lifestyle that many inspire to work despite the many challenges that face this career. The challenges that pilot face revolve around being rested during long flights, performing unexpected, simultaneous tasks, and passing the medical examination in order to remain qualified. When combined with fatigue due to long flight hours, these different aspects can

Pilots must be calm and prepare their routes carefully. At the same time, they must be willing to take risks.

Many people travel on a plane each year, but have never wondered what the people flying the plane have done to get to this level. Becoming a pilot requires difficult work, and takes time, mostly in the early stages of flight school. A pilot must go to school for many years, on top of the two years of college (”Education”), and must go through many different airlines. A pilot also must stay away from their family whenever they are flying, as they may only fly 3 days a week, and not consecutively. Piloting is an honored and respected profession that is used to take people around the world, it requires patience, and good math skills (Hopke).

This report explains issues regarding pilots’ health, their effects on flying safely, and measures to avoid catastrophes and jeopardising the life of the pilot, their crew and the passengers.

The NextGen Air Transportation System is a complex, revolutionary redevelopment of the broad U.S. air traffic control system that includes many challenging and interrelated components and concepts, including a fundamental transfer from a RADAR, ground-based system to a GPS, satellite-based system. Its multi-year implementation, touches virtually every aspect of aviation operations. As such, it presents many potential human factors challenges that can potentially directly affect aviation safety. Next, I will creatively apply the knowledge of human factors and aviation safety that I have developed over the

• Learning curve has to be steep, i.e. Cost reduction has to be fast with change in technology

Pursuing a career in aviation can be a daunting task when you first look into the requirements you must achieve to become a pilot. The dream of aviation cannot be captured in one night and you should understand what you are up against before you commit to making aviation your career. The purpose of this paper is to help you understand the minimum requirements, training, path options, and the career opportunities that are projected in the aviation industry. There is more than one way to become a pilot and I hope to assist you with the understanding of the different options available to you.

The unsafe acts of all pilots can be directly linked to nearly 80% of all aviation accidents (Shappell, 2000). The military uses a modernized model Reason’s

Among the strengths of the article, are the examples the author gave to support his thesis statement. He gave example of the consequences of human errors, and also examples of how the aviation community plans to mitigate these risk. One of the examples the author gave is the use of Electronic communication to replace human contact. This is currently being used in Heathrow airport and now, “Aircraft can now be given departure clearances electronically, reducing controller and pilot workload, while aircraft on and off-stand status data can be shared almost instantly helping to speed up decision making”(sadler, 2015, para.2). There was no evidence of bias of faulty reasoning, but the author should have made mention, or give example of last minute decision that were made by air traffic controller or pilots to counter human error. It is clear that many individuals in the aviation community things that one human error is one to many, and as a result we have seen technology slowly taking the place of humans, with the implementation of Electronic clearance’s, and free flight. Computers also make errors to, and it will be just a mater of time before we see the first computer

Less stress on arrival! Arriving at an airport is often the most stressful part of your trip. Even if you've flown into the airport before things can change. It can be hard to find a taxi, work

In the middle of 1990’s, Boeing began its plan of acquisitions and in 1996 it paid $3.2 billion for the aerospace and defense holdings of Rockwell International which was responsible for the Space shuttle and International Space Station programs, as well as activities in launch systems, rocket engines, missiles, satellites and military airplanes. Furthermore, in 1997 Boeing completed a $14 billion acquisition of McDonnell Douglas which was the world’s number three maker of commercial aircraft. The acquisition

Stress is an everyday reality in the aviation industry, especially to pilots. Pilots face different kinds of stress on the job. Overload and underload on pilots is common and has always been overlooked. As a result, poses a threat to aviation safety. The society should pay a considerable attention to this issue. This essay will discuss the effect of stress on pilot performance and ways to relief stress. It begins with definitions of stress, then it will mention the causes of stress. The essay then explores on the relevance to aviation industry. Finally, the essay will give suggestions on how to cope with stress. As a future commercial airline pilot, this topic has great relevance as stress could not be avoided in the aviation industry. It

According to Rodrigues and Cusick (2012) humans are accountable for approximately 70-80% of aviation accidents (p.156). A majority of these are caused by the different variables associated with human performance. Psychological factors have a key role in a pilot’s everyday responsibility. Some of these traits include: perception, memory, attitude, judgment and decision making, as well as ego (Rodrigues & Cusick, 2012, p. 158-160). These qualities can have drastic effects in commercial aviation if they are not recognized and adjusted accordingly. In this paper I will respond to some questions that are raised in aviation safety: