“For Your SA”: Insights from a Situation Awareness Training Study

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-29
Author(s):  
Alex McNaughton ◽  
Susannah J. Whitney ◽  
Philip Temby
Keyword(s):  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Awareness Training ◽  
Training Study

Pilot Situation Awareness Training in General Aviation

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (11) ◽  
pp. 357-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mica R. Endsley ◽  
Daniel J. Garland
Keyword(s):  
Situation Awareness ◽  
General Aviation ◽  
Awareness Training ◽  
Significant Interest ◽  
Aviation Pilots

While the majority of research on the topic of situation awareness has been focused on designing better systems, significant interest also exists in finding ways to improve SA through training. This paper describes an ongoing program that is directed at developing programs for training SA in general aviation pilots. Factors that have been found to pose problems for SA in pilots are reviewed and directions are established for creating programs for improving SA through training.

scholarly journals Game-based situation awareness training for child and adult cyclists

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 160823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esko Lehtonen ◽  
Jasmiina Airaksinen ◽  
Kaisa Kanerva ◽  
Anna Rissanen ◽  
Riikka Ränninranta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Working Memory Capacity ◽  
Potential Hazard ◽  
Awareness Training ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Learning Game ◽  
Video Based Learning ◽  
Executive Working Memory ◽  
Better Than

Safe cycling requires situation awareness (SA), which is the basis for recognizing and anticipating hazards. Children have poorer SA than adults, which may put them at risk. This study investigates whether cyclists' SA can be trained with a video-based learning game. The effect of executive working memory on SA was also studied. Thirty-six children (9–10 years) and 22 adults (21–48 years) played the game. The game had 30 video clips filmed from a cyclist's perspective. Each clip was suddenly masked and two or three locations were presented. The player's task was to choose locations with a potential hazard and feedback was given for their answers. Working memory capacity (WMC) was tested with a counting span task. Children's and adults' performance improved while playing the game, which suggests that playing the game trains SA. Adults performed better than children, and they also glanced at hazards more while the video was playing. Children expectedly had a lower WMC than adults, but WMC did not predict performance within the groups. This indicates that SA does not depend on WMC when passively viewing videos.

Flying Solo

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Amy Irwin ◽  
Nejc Sedlar ◽  
Oliver Hamlet
Keyword(s):  
Situation Awareness ◽  
General Aviation ◽  
Awareness Training ◽  
Pilot Performance ◽  
Risk Area ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
High Risk Area ◽  
Mitigating Factors ◽  
Flight Parameters ◽  
Risk Categories

Abstract. The paper examines general aviation (GA) pilot risk perception and decision-making via an online vignette study. GA is a high-risk area of aviation with many GA accidents considered to be the result of pilot performance rather than mechanical failure. Pilots ( n = 101) were presented with 12 go/no-go take-off decision scenarios across four risk categories (compromised performance, environment, faulty equipment, missing equipment). Scenarios depicting a missing checklist, missing sunglasses, and stress were considered less risky than illness, a faulty airspeed indicator (ASI), and a broken seatbelt. Pilots weighed their take-off decisions against mitigating factors, protective measures, and flight parameters. Situation awareness training and a focus on pre-flight planning may help to enhance flight safety within this group.

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