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Decision making pervades every aspect of life: people make hundreds of decisions every day. The vast majority of these are trivial and without a right or wrong answer. This volume contains key papers published over the last 25 years providing an overview of the major paradigms by which aeronautical decision making has been investigated.

Situational awareness has become a salient factor contributing to flight safety and operational performance, and the research has burgeoned to cope with the human performance challenges associated with the installation of advanced avionics systems in modern aircraft. This title contributes to situational awareness research and practice.

Most aviation accidents are attributed to human error, pilot error especially. Human error also greatly effects productivity and profitability. This book points out that these facts are often misinterpreted as evidence of deficiency on the part of operators involved in accidents.

Crew Resource Management (CRM) training was first introduced in the late 1970s as a means to combating an increased number of accidents in which poor teamwork in the cockpit was a significant contributing factor. This book provides a selection of readings which depicts the past, present, and future of CRM research and training.

Optimal simulation training development can unquestionably benefit from knowledge and understanding of past, present, and future research in this topic area. This title provides a reference, to help exploration of critical research in the field.