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Flight Performance Aspects During Military Helicopter Flights
Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance
|March 30, 2019
Summary
Nontechnical skills like decision-making are crucial for helicopter flight safety and performance. Reduced pilot alertness significantly impacts these essential nontechnical skills more than technical skills.
Area of Science:
- Aviation Psychology
- Human Factors in Flight Operations
- Pilot Performance Research
Background:
- Flight performance encompasses various aspects, but not all are equally critical for mission success and safety.
- Understanding how stressors, like reduced alertness, affect critical flight performance areas is essential.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify key flight performance aspects critical for helicopter flight success and safety.
- To determine which of these aspects are most susceptible to reduced pilot alertness.
Main Methods:
- A three-round Delphi study involving 136 helicopter pilots from the Royal Netherlands Air Force.
- Pilots ranked the importance and susceptibility to reduced alertness of various technical and nontechnical skills.
Main Results:
- Seven nontechnical skills (NTS) and three technical skills (TS) were ranked among the top ten essential skills.
- Awareness of the environment, decision-making, and workload management were identified as the top three skills.
- Flight instructors indicated these top three skills are highly influenced by reduced pilot alertness.
Conclusions:
- Nontechnical skills are deemed more critical for operational helicopter flights than technical skills.
- Reduced pilot alertness disproportionately affects nontechnical skills compared to technical skills.
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