Helicopter Aircrew Cumulative Neck Loads from Integrated Task and Physical Demands Analyses

Farrell, Philip S. E.; Tack, David W.; Nakaza, Edward T.; Bray-Miners, Jordan

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“…Pilots indicated that ideally, there is no communication from the ship once the helicopter enters the ship deck. Fatigue can also negatively affect the pilot's performance, decreasing attention capacity and flexibility (Caldwell, 1997;Farrell et al, 2016). Landing is usually the final task for the pilot coming back from a mission, and it requires an increased cognitive effort after a less demanding cruising period (Gaydos et al, 2013;Hartzler, 2014).…”

Section: Pilot Factorsmentioning

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Helicopter Pilots’ Tasks, Subjective Workload, and the Role of External Visual Cues During Shipboard Landing

Tušl

Rainieri

Fraboni

et al. 2020

Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making

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Helicopter shipboard landing is a cognitively complex task that is challenging both for pilots and their crew. Effective communication, accurate reading of the flight instruments, as well as monitoring of the external environment are crucial for a successful landing. In particular, the final phases of landing are critical as they imply high workload situations in an unstable environment with restricted space. In the present qualitative study, we interviewed ten helicopter pilots from the Italian Navy using an applied cognitive task analysis approach. We aimed to obtain a detailed description of the landing procedure, and to identify relevant factors that affect pilots’ workload, performance, and safety. Based on the content analysis of the interviews, we have identified six distinct phases of approaching and landing on a ship deck and four categories of factors that may significantly affect pilots’ performance and safety of the landing procedure. Consistent with previous studies, our findings suggest that external visual cueing is vital for a successful landing, in particular during the last phases of landing. Therefore, based on the pilots’ statements, we provide suggestions for possible improvements of external visual cues that have the potential to reduce pilots’ workload and improve the overall safety of landing operations.

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Section: Pilot Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Helicopter Pilots’ Tasks, Subjective Workload, and the Role of External Visual Cues During Shipboard Landing

Tušl

Rainieri

Fraboni

et al. 2020

Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making

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A Novel Biopsychosocial Approach to Neck Pain in Military Helicopter Aircrew

Vail¹,

Harridge²,

Hodkinson³

et al. 2021

aerosp med hum perform

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INTRODUCTION: Flight-related neck pain (FRNP) is a frequently reported musculoskeletal complaint among military helicopter aircrew. However, despite its prevalence and suspected causes, little is known of the underpinning pain mechanisms or the impact of neck pain on aircrews in-flight task performance. The biopsychosocial (BPS) approach to health, combined with the contemporary conceptualization of musculoskeletal pain, in which injury and pain are not necessarily synonymous, provides a relatively new holistic framework within which to consider the problem of FRNP in military helicopter aircrew. Combining these concepts, a new conceptual model is proposed to illustrate how biopsychosocial factors may influence pain perception, potentially affecting aircrews capacity to process information and, therefore, threatening in-flight task performance. Recommendations are made for considering the underlying pain mechanisms of FRNP to aid prognoses and guide the development of holistic evidence-based countermeasures for FRNP in military helicopter aircrew. Development of instruments able to measure psychosocial factors, such as self-efficacy and functional ability, validated in the military helicopter aircrew population, would assist this task.Vail RE, Harridge SDR, Hodkinson PD, Green NDC, Pavlou M. A novel biopsychosocial approach to neck pain in military helicopter aircrew. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2021; 92(5):333341.

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Helicopter Aircrew Cumulative Neck Loads from Integrated Task and Physical Demands Analyses

Cited by 2 publications

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Helicopter Pilots’ Tasks, Subjective Workload, and the Role of External Visual Cues During Shipboard Landing

Helicopter Pilots’ Tasks, Subjective Workload, and the Role of External Visual Cues During Shipboard Landing

A Novel Biopsychosocial Approach to Neck Pain in Military Helicopter Aircrew

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