Course detail

Human Factor and Limitations

FSI-CLOAcad. year: 2025/2026

The basic course determined for students majoring in flying and flight operation. It is concerned with the role of human factor in aircraft and efficiency limitation of human being with regard to its environment and peculiarity of human being as a living system - i.e. as 1. A species, 2. A healthy individual (physiology), An ill individual (pathophysiology), 3. An individual influenced by the superior nerve system (sociology). The content of the course results from JAR-FCL 1 regulations and was modified by the later JAR - FCL 3. The ICAO requires this training.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

MUDr. Jana Hlaváčová

Department

Institute of Aerospace Engineering (LÚ)

Entry knowledge

Knowledge of secondary school human biology.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The course-unit credit requirements: participation in the course (80% at the minimum). Exam evaluation fulfils the University requirements.
Attendance at both lectures and exercises is compulsory (80% at least), and it is checked and recorded. The absence (in justifiable cases) can be compensated by personal consultation with the lecturer.

Aims

The course objective is to make students familiar with the function of the human factor in aviation and its crucial influence on security and efficiency in the air transport.
The basic knowledge of quantitative and qualitative effects of outer and inner environment on the human organism, and human limitations in the air transport.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

EASA ATPL (A) Theory Training: Human Performance and limitations. 7th Edition. United Kingdom: Bristol Groundschool International Limited, 2019. ISBN 978-1-912679-20-1. (EN)
EASA ATPL Ground Training Series: Human Performance and limitations. Book No 8, EASA-First Edition, Revised for NPA29. United Kingdom: CAE Oxford Aviation Academy, 2020. (EN)
Jiří Šulc: Letecká fyziologie (CS)
PhDr. Mudr.L. Háčik,CSc.: Lidská výkonnost a omezení (CS)

Recommended reading

Handzo a spol.: Telovýchovné lekárstvo (SK)
Jelínek, Zicháček: Biologie pro gymnázia (CS)
Silbernagl, Despopoulos: Alas fyziologie člověka (EN)
Trollip,S.R-Jensen,R.S.: Human Factors for General Aviation. Jeppesen Sanderson, Englewood, 1991. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-PRP-P Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

MUDr. Jana Hlaváčová

Syllabus

1. Human factors in aviation.
2. Sufficient ability, limitations and processes of development into sufficiently capable pilot.
3. Accident statistics and concepts of flight safety.
4. Basics of flight physiology.
5. Human being and environment; sensory system.
6. Health and hygiene.
7. Information processing by human being.
8. Mistakes and human reliability.
9. Decision-making.
10. Mistake prevention and managing; operation managing in cockpit.
11. Personality.
12. Overload and dead load of human being.
13. Progressive automation of cockpit.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

MUDr. Jana Hlaváčová

Syllabus

1. Human factors in aviation.
2. Sufficient ability, limitations and processes of development into sufficiently capable pilot.
3. Accident statistics and concepts of flight safety.
4. Basics of flight physiology.
5. Human being and environment; sensory system.
6. Health and hygiene.
7. Loss of working ability.
8. Information processing by human being.
9. Mistakes and reliability of human behaviour.
10. Decision-making, knowledge of security and coordination (multiple crew concepts).
11. Personality.
12. Overload and dead load of human being.
13. Progressive automation of cockpit.