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Three pilot error mechanisms have been presented from the analysis of aviation accidents and the limit of pilot performance. The three mechanisms are speed limited, learned carelessness, and cognitive locked which is all validated through experiments. The essential causes for the three errors are the capability limit, human cognitive inertia, and the limited cognitive resource. The recovery suggestions have already been presented from the cockpit design and pilot training. For the cockpit HCI design, the persistent time for the information should be 500 ms at least to give pilot enough time to react; if the pilot has to execute multitasks at the same time, the information should be designed in ladder to avoid unreasonable attention resource allocation; for the pilot training, the responsibility of the job should be enhanced and the study of rules and procedures should be stricter to avoid carelessness learned.
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Zhang, X., Xue, H. (2014). Pilot Error and Error Recovery. In: Long, S., Dhillon, B.S. (eds) Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering. MMESE 2013. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 259. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38968-9_7
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