A Technical Analysis of Ergonomics and Human Factors in Modern Flight Deck Design
I. Introduction
Since the dawn of the aviation era, cockpit design has become
increasingly complicated owing to the advent of new technologies enabling
aircraft to fly farther and faster more efficiently than ever before. With
greater workloads imposed on pilots as fleets modernize, the reality of he or
she exceeding the workload limit has become manifest. Because of the
unpredictable nature of man, this problem is impossible to eliminate completely.
However, the instances of occurrence can be drastically reduced by examining the
nature of man, how he operates in the cockpit, and what must be done by
engineers to design a system in which man and machine are ideally interfaced.
The latter point involves an in-depth analysis of system design with an emphasis
on human factors, biomechanics, cockpit controls, and display systems. By
analyzing these components of cockpit design, and determining......
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