Over the last three decades, the number of US pilots has decreased by 30 percent. That problem is only going to get worse as demand increases.
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Aviation safety has much to gain from neuroscience: studying how our brains become “deaf” to alarms allows us to adapt the pilot’s flight instruments.
Airplanes could be safer with technology at the helm. A key sticking point is human opinion.
In the cockpit of an aircraft, the hierarchy between captain and co-pilot is strictly respected. At the risk, sometimes, of poor decision-making.
To stop pilots strikes this Christmas, Ryanair made a massive U-turn on previous policy on recognising unions.
Pilots are carefully trained to handle any crisis – but what happens when they are no longer fit mid-flight?
There is a global pilot shortage which could soon affect all airlines.
Did pride come before the fall for Ireland’s budget airline?
On the trail of the men of Britain’s Royal Aircraft Factory, who gave their lives to help create the world’s first air force.
Nearly 60% of pilots say they know of colleagues who are tired at work.
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Associate Professor in Aviation, CQUniversity Australia
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Chercheure en Facteur Humain & Neurosciences Sociales, ISAE-SUPAERO
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DANCAP Private Equity Chair in Human Organization, Western University
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Lecturer in Strategy; Researcher in Aviation, Trinity College Dublin
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Assistant Professor of Graduate Studies, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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Prof F. Dehais , titulaire de la chaire AXA - ISAE "Neuroergonomics for flight safety", ISAE-SUPAERO
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Associate Professor/Discipline Leader Accident Investigation and Forensics, CQUniversity Australia
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PhD Candidate in History of Mathematics, The Open University
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Senior lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology
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Deputy Chair, Aviation Department, Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Research officer, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science
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