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Developing resilience engineering principles for design: the case of pilot's incapacitation in civil aviation

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This article focuses on an analysis of the strategies used by pilots of the civil aviation in case of an incapacitation during flight. Incapacitation is defined in this research as any situation where the level of available aircrew resources is lower than the required level of resources needed to maintain the optimum performance with common strategies. There are different types of incapacitation depending on their severity and operational consequences. Incapacitations are a contributing factor of several events in aviation. In case of an incapacitation, aircrews use strategies to maintain their performance and manage the overall level of flight safety. This work aims at developing a methodology to perform a risk management of crew incapacitation and to identify crew strategies in order to study the potential to integrate them in the design of future cockpits and pilot's training. This paper deals with the indentification of strategies.

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        Ergo'IHM '12: Proceedings of the 2012 Conference on Ergonomie et Interaction homme-machine
        October 2012
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        DOI:10.1145/2652574
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        1. Fatigue
        2. Incapacitation
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