Aviation Safety and Pilot Control: Understanding and Preventing Unfavorable Pilot-Vehicle Interactions

by National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Committee on the Effects of Aircraft-Pilot Coupling on Flight Safety, et al.

Adverse aircraft-pilot coupling (APC) events include a broad set of undesirable and sometimes hazardous phenomena that originate in anomalous interactions between pilots and aircraft. As civil and military aircraft technologies advance, interactions between pilots and aircraft are becoming more complex. Recent accidents and other incidents have been attributed to adverse APC in military aircraft. In addition, APC has been implicated in some civilian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309056888
• ISBN13: 9780309056885
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"