Recent Advances in the Applied Physiology of Flight: Symposium by the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine

doi:10.1177/003591576005300203

Integration of Navigational Information in Aircraft

Journal of Navigation ◽

10.1017/s0373463300021342 ◽

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.

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

Journal of The Royal Naval Medical Service ◽

10.1136/jrnms-101-186 ◽

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.

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Human error on the flight deck

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.1990.0093 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 327 (1241) ◽

pp. 503-511 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

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.

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

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rspb.1959.0001 ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 150 (938) ◽

pp. 1-6 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

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.

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