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Pilots, personality, and performance : human behavior and stress in the skies

Title
Pilots, personality, and performance : human behavior and stress in the skies / edited by Sheila R. Deitz and William E. Thoms.
Publication
New York : Quorum Books, 1991.

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Additional Authors
  • Deitz, Sheila R.
  • Thoms, William E.
Description
xv, 212 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
A group of essays that explore some of the human factors becoming recocgnised as major causes of airplane mishaps and crashes.
Subject
  • Aviation psychology
  • Flugzeugführer
  • Psychologie
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Physiologie
  • Stress
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The impaired pilot / Sheila R. Dietz and Ward K. Johnson III -- Flight : the physiological stresses / Karon S. Aronson -- The role of the aviation medical examiner / Jon R. Rice -- Cockpit communication and initial aviation training / H. Duane Luessenheide -- Is Peter Pan flying your plane? / Gail D. Roen -- Reregulation and pilot stress / William E. Thoms -- The post-deregualtion pilot job market : pilot error or personnel economics? / William A. Good -- Managing airline corporate stress / H. Robert Wasiuta -- Commercial pilots and mandatory retirement / John Delane Williams and Jole A. Williams -- The pilot and the thinking machine / Roderic A. Beaulieu -- Pilots and pirates : airline pilots and hijacking / O. Peter St. John -- Civilian pilots go to war : the civil reserve air fleet today / Richard D. Crabtree.
ISBN
  • 0899305776
  • 9780899305776
LCCN
91011427
OCLC
  • ocm23254552
  • 23254552
  • SCSB-1957707
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library