Recent changes in hypoxia training at the Royal Air Force Centre of Aviation Medicine

2015 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-187
Author(s):  
A Wrigley
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Decompression Sickness ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Training Method ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Aviation Medicine ◽  
Oxygen Breathing ◽  
Hypobaric Chamber ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New System

AbstractHypoxia training at the Royal Air Force Centre of Aviation Medicine (RAF CAM) has traditionally involved the use of a hypobaric chamber to induce hypoxia. While giving the student experience of both hypoxia and decompression, hypobaric chamber training is not without risks such as decompression sickness and barotrauma. This article describes the new system for hypoxia training known as Scenario-Based Hypoxia Training (SBHT), which involves the subject sitting in an aircraft simulator and wearing a mask linked by hose to a Reduced Oxygen Breathing Device (ROBD). The occupational requirements to be declared fit for this new training method are also discussed.

Human error on the flight deck

1990 ◽  
Vol 327 (1241) ◽  
pp. 503-511 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Reporting System ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Aircraft Accidents ◽  
Aviation Medicine ◽  
The Social ◽  
Structural Failures ◽  
Flight Deck

Despite terrorist bombs and structural failures, human error on the flight deck continues to account for the majority of aircraft accidents. The Royal Air Force (RAF) Institute of Aviation Medicine (IAM) has investigated the psychology of such error since the early 1970s, and to this end has used two principal techniques. The first has involved assisting in the official inquiries into both RAF and civil flying accidents, and the second has involved setting up a reporting system that permits any commercial pilot to report his own everyday errors, in complete confidence, to the RAF IAM. The latter system possesses the clear benefit of gathering error data untainted by considerations of culpability, and sometimes permits system rectification before the occurrence of accidents. This paper examines selected examples of errors associated with the design of equipment and with the social psychology of crews, and suggests that some consideration of the psychology of organizations may be necessary to ensure that the problems of human error are given the degree of consideration they require.

The work of the R. A. F. Institute of Aviation Medicine

1959 ◽  
Vol 150 (938) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Biological Knowledge ◽  
Aircraft Industry ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Aviation Medicine ◽  
The United Kingdom

The Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine is located within the perimeter of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough as a lodger unit of the Air Ministry. It was first established in 1939, under the direction of Professor Sir Bryan Matthews, and its aim today is exactly that of early war years, namely, to investigate those factors which impair the efficiency of flying personnel in flight, and impair their chances of safety or survival in emergencies in flight or thereafter on the sea or land. In the United Kingdom it is the main laboratory carrying out such work, and thus has come to be the chief source of biological knowledge to the aircraft industry. With regard to giving advice to the Royal Air Force, the Institute is a part of the entire medical branch, but works closely through Flying Personnel Medical Officers, who are responsible for carrying out investigations at the operational squadrons. These officers can interpret directly the biological advice which results from studies in the Institute, but there are no comparable links in industry in this country.

Methods of Aeroplane Flying Instruction

1922 ◽  
Vol 26 (137) ◽  
pp. 177-190
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Almost All

I must begin by confessing that when I received the kind invitation of the Royal Aeronautical Society to read a paper on the methods of aeroplane flying instruction, I had grave doubts as to whether I could make it either informative or interesting.In the first place, by comparison with others on which papers have been read here, this subject seems “ cut and dried. ” I do not mean that flying instruction has reached such a pitch of excellence that further improvement is impossible, but that as far as the Royal Air Force is concerned the present methods are stereotyped in certain orders which the service instructor has to obey.Secondly, I fear that a great many of those present know almost all that there is to be known on the subject, and I must ask them to be patient when I travel laboriously over ground which is very familiar to them.

“Some Maltese Problems”

1927 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-259
Author(s):  
R. R. Marett
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Ground Plan ◽  
Aerial Surveys ◽  
The Subject

In offering some observations on the prehistory of Malta, the fruit of a month's visit to the island in the Easter Vacation of 1927, Dr. Marett disclaimed all intention of contributing positively to the subject, and hoped at most to draw attention to sundry matters standing in need of further investigation. All British archæologists should pay Malta a visit, if only in order to enjoy the experience of visiting its wonderful monuments under the guidance of local experts such as Professor T. Zammit and Dr. G. Despott, who are as kind as they are learned and patriotically keen. Dr. Marett was also anxious to acknowledge his great debt to the Royal Air Force for allowing him to explore Malta and Gozo from the air—a most instructive method not only of taking in the ground-plan of a given site but likewise of viewing the various sites in their geographical relation to each other; while several magnificent series of photographs taken by the R.A.F. in the course of their aerial surveys were most generously placed at his disposal and proved to be archæologically, not less than otherwise, of the greatest interest and value.

Integration of Navigational Information in Aircraft

1981 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-246
Author(s):  
V. David Hopkin
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Aviation Medicine ◽  
Recent Advances

Mr Hopkin, Senior Principal Psychologist at the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine, discusses the human implications of recent advances in the automation of data processing and display as affecting both the role of the navigator and the safety of navigation. This paper was presented in London on 11 December 1980 at a joint meeting of the Institute and the Nautical Institute.

An Empirical Evaluation of Air Force Field Feeding with Recommendations for a New System

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene M. Nuss ◽  
Joseph M. Wall ◽  
Philip Brandler ◽  
Lawrence E. Symington
Keyword(s):  
Force Field ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Empirical Evaluation ◽  
New System
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