Decision-Making
Decision-Making
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Definition
In aviation, decision-making is the cognitive process of selecting a course of action from multiple alternatives.
Description
Decision-making generally has four components:
- Defining the problem
- Considering the options
- Selecting and implementing an option
- Reviewing the outcome.
Decision making is influenced by:
- Situational Awareness - a combination of availability of information and the ability of the decision maker to interpret the information (skills and professional knowledge)
- Experience - familiarity with similar, perhaps routine, situations.
- Social - social pressure, national and institutional culture.
- Situational limitations - Physiological & psychological pressures (stress, fatigue, hypoxia etc), time pressure
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Flight Safety Foundation
CASA
EGAST
- Decision Making for General Aviation Pilots, EGAST Safety Promotion Leaflet, April 2011;
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- V1
- Rejected Take Off: ATC Considerations
- Fatigue
- Continuation Bias
- Stress
- Fatigue Management: Guidance for Air Traffic Controllers and Air Traffic Engineers
- Perception in ATC
- Teamwork in Air Traffic Control
- Crew Resource Management (CRM)
- Team Resource Management (TRM)
- Go-around Decision Making
- ATC Operations in Weather Avoidance Scenarios
- Choice
- Cognitive Capabilities and Limitations
- Cognitive Lockup
- Decision-Making (OGHFA BN)
- FOR-DEC
- Human Factor in Emergencies
- Information Processing
- Intersection Take Off: Guidance for Controllers
- Level of Arousal
- Pilot Aptitude Assessment
- Pilot Memory Aids
- Pilot Perception
- Prioritisation for Pilots
- Recency Bias
- Written Communication
- Mood
- Air Turnback
