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Decision Making
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Definition
In aviation, decision making is the cognitive process of selecting a course of action from among multiple alternatives.
Description
Decision-making generally has four components:
- Defining the problem
- Considering the options
- Selecting and implementing the options
- Reviewing the outcome.
Decision making is influenced by:
- Situational Awareness -a combination of availability of information and the ability of the decision maker to interpret the information (skills and professional knowledge)
- Experience - familiarity with similar, perhaps routine, situations.
- Social - social pressure, national and institutional culture.
- Situational limitations - Physiological & psychological pressures (stress, fatigue, hypoxia etc), time pressure
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Further Reading
Flight Safety Foundation
CASA
- Safety Behaviours Toolkit - Resource Guide for pilots (pages 139-145)
EGAST
- Decision Making for General Aviation Pilots, EGAST Safety Promotion Leaflet, April 2011;