The RTCA Human Factors course provides a practical application of Human Factors Engineering (HFE) for a broad scope of personnel involved in the management, engineering, and operations of aircraft. This could include:

• Managers
• Project/Program Managers
• Technical project managers
• Engineers involved in flight deck design and certification
• Newly hired human factors specialists
• Flight test engineers
• Flight operations, test pilots
• Flight crew, dispatchers, cabin crew, air traffic controllers

The course contains:

•  An overview of how civil flight decks are designed, evaluated, and certified
•  How HFE contributes to safe and desirable flight deck design
•  An introduction to the tasks and responsibilities of flight deck human factors engineers to non-human factors engineers
•  A review of the physical, physiological, and cognitive performance capabilities of flight crews
•  An understanding of the limitations of flight crew’s performance, how it is impacted by systemic variables in the flight deck environment and impact crew workload and human error.

Course Materials

• Comprehensive Course Manual
• DO-372, Addressing Human Factors/Pilot Interface Issues for Avionics

• Understand the contributions of  Human Factors to flight deck design and certification
• Become familiar with the regulations and guidance documents that Human Factors professionals use regularly in flight deck design and certification
• Understand the development life cycle phases within the certification process