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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