CRM/TEM/LOFT
A full mission simulation of situations which are representative of normal operations, focusing on real-time, full mission training.
What is Line-Oriented Flight Training (LOFT)?
This hormone is known as the 'light of the night' and regulates the sleep and wake cycle
What is melatonin?
Information stored for about 10-20 seconds in this kind of memory
What is the short-term memory?
The amount of time an individual is able to function effectively in a low-oxygen environment
What is Time of Useful Consciousness (TUC)?
These optical cells are responsible for low-light vision.
What are Rods?
A high noise level in the cockpit is an example of this kind of mismatch in the SHEL model
What is a liveware-environment mismatch?
The ability to pick up relevant information unintentionally
What is the cocktail party effect?
The study of human measurement
What is anthropometry?
This gas law explains how O2 moves from the alveoli into the bloodstream
This gas law explains the occurrence of decompression sickness
What is Henry's Law?
The working relationship between a captain as a leader and the first officer as a team member
What is trans-cockpit authority gradient?
This is the first stage in the information process
What is perception?
The mechanism of executing several mental activities at almost the same time
What is divided attention?
If this condition is suspected, the cabin heating must be turned off, ventilation opened, and landing must be performed as soon as possible
What is carbon monoxide poisoning?
This mechanism helps maintain balance and spatial orientation
What is the vestibular apparatus?
These are threats outside of the control of flight crew, which include time pressure, irregular operations, flight diversions.
What are operational threats?
These kind of programmes are held in the long term memory and can be executed without conscious thought
What are motor programmes?
Skills are stored in this part of the long-term memory
What is procedural memory?
This kind of hypoxia is typical of carbon monoxide poisoning, as well as heavy bleeding
What is anaemic hypoxia?
This illusion is caused by the absence of visual cues (especially during night time) and can give the illusion of the aircraft being too high.
What is the Black Hole Effect?
This airplane equipment marked a substantial decrease in hull loss rates from the 1980s onward
What is Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS)?
This law states that if an equipment is designed in such a way that it can be operated wrongly, sooner or later it will be operated wrongly
What is Murphy's Law?
A score of more than 60 to 80 points on the life stress scale.
What does 'normal life stress' mean?
This zone of the atmosphere extends from 50,000 feet to 120 NM
What is the Partial Space Equivalent Zone?
The formation of nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream leads to this painful condition.
What are the Bends?