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1. 1. Gliding an Airbus A320 - Simplicity-Complexity Trade-Off

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

   Author : Cristian Mandu; [2021]
   Keywords : Aviation; Crew Resource Management; Workload; Situational Awareness; Decision Making; QRH procedure; Judgment Heuristics; Joint Cognitive Systems; FLMU06; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : In the unlikely critical event of an Airbus A320 aeroplane suffering an all engines failure at cruising altitude, would the pilots be able to follow procedures and land safely on a reachable runway? Nine out of twelve simulations done during this research resulted in a crash when the pilots used only the Airbus procedures. Can the pilots make a safe landing on a runway after being taught and having practised judgment heuristics in addition to the manufacturer procedures? According to the sampled results in this research, they can. READ MORE