Read Chapter 4, Basic Flight Physiology

Not one dimensional

-Location horizontal(Geographic)

--Location vertical(Altitude)

---Velocity(Speed & Heading)

----A/C performance factors

-----Power setting

------Configuration

-------ATC comm.

--------Other A/C

---------Weather

----------Systems Knowledge

-----------Operational Knowledge

Adequate and timely information flow required!

Any breakdown can lead to mistakes!

Study of NASA safety reports show:

Out of 12,000 reports

----73% evidence of a problem in transfer of information

---------85% of those were aural

---------15% of those were visual

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