Human Factors for Civil Flight Deck Design

Don Harris is Reader in the Department of Human Factors and Air Transport, Cranfield University, UK. He has written numerous papers, mostly in the field of human factors in aviation, edited Human Factors For Flight Deck Certification (Cranfield University Press, 1997) and has been a guest editor for the International Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics. He is a member of the Ergonomics Society and the International Association of Applied Psychologists. He is joint Main Editor, with Helen Muir, of Human Factors in Aerospace Safety, An International Journal, and was the founding convener of the International Conferences on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics.

• Contents: Flight Deck Design: Flight deck design and integration for commercial air transports, Brian D. Kelly; Flight deck design process, Florence Reuzeau and René Nibbelke; Using cognitive function analysis to prevent controlled flight into terrain, Guy A. Boy and Daniel Ferro; Head-down flight deck display design, Don Harris; Head-up displays, Christopher D. Wickens, Patricia May Ververs and Steve Fadden; Warning system design in civil aircraft, Jan M. Noyes, Alison F. Starr and Mandana L.N. Kazem; Handling qualities and their implications for flight deck design, Edmund Field; On the other side of promise: what should we automate today?, Sidney Dekker; Anthropometrics for flight deck design, Ted Lovesey; Stressors in the flight deck environment, Don Harris. Flight Deck Evaluation: Evaluating the flight deck, Peter G.A.M. Jorna and Piet J. Hoogeboom; Human factors in flight test and flight deck evaluation, Gideon Singer; Assessing the human hazard, Hazel Courteney; Index.

'Overall this book is to be highly recommended to those involved in the design and certification of civil flight decks. It provides much informative material, but challenges designers of the future that the job has barely begun. It asserts that what matters is not automation quantity, but automation quality in which powerful, yet observable automation facilitates team play in partnership with its human operators especially during busy and especially unforeseen circumstances.' Malcolm Jukes, Aerospace Professional, March 2006