Pilots, personality, and performance : human behavior and stress in the skies

Title
  1. Pilots, personality, and performance : human behavior and stress in the skies / edited by Sheila R. Deitz and William E. Thoms.
Published by
  1. New York : Quorum Books, 1991.

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Additional authors
  1. Deitz, Sheila R.
  2. Thoms, William E.
Description
  1. xv, 212 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
  1. A group of essays that explore some of the human factors becoming recocgnised as major causes of airplane mishaps and crashes.
Subject
  1. Aviation psychology
  2. Flugzeugführer
  3. Psychologie
  4. Aufsatzsammlung
  5. Physiologie
  6. Stress
Contents
  1. The impaired pilot / Sheila R. Dietz and Ward K. Johnson III -- Flight : the physiological stresses / Karon S. Aronson -- The role of the aviation medical examiner / Jon R. Rice -- Cockpit communication and initial aviation training / H. Duane Luessenheide -- Is Peter Pan flying your plane? / Gail D. Roen -- Reregulation and pilot stress / William E. Thoms -- The post-deregualtion pilot job market : pilot error or personnel economics? / William A. Good -- Managing airline corporate stress / H. Robert Wasiuta -- Commercial pilots and mandatory retirement / John Delane Williams and Jole A. Williams -- The pilot and the thinking machine / Roderic A. Beaulieu -- Pilots and pirates : airline pilots and hijacking / O. Peter St. John -- Civilian pilots go to war : the civil reserve air fleet today / Richard D. Crabtree.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.