General aviation accidents account for 94% of all aviation accidents and 92% of fatalities, with 97% of the probable causes attributable to pilot error. Poor situation awareness is considered the largest causal factor behind pilot error. Even experienced commercial airline pilots are at risk. In commercial aviation accidents, 88% of human error is due to loss of situation awareness.
SA Trainer™ for General Aviation
This computer-based training program provides support for the key problems of low-time general aviation pilots. Originally developed for NASA, the training builds basic skills important for situation
awareness, such as:
- Psychomotor skills
- Comprehension of air traffic control
- Completing checklists
The program also provides higher-order cognitive skills training for the challenging world of aviation in:
- Attention sharing
- Contingency planning
- Intensive pre-flight planning
- Structured feedback on SA
SA Trainer™ for Commercial Aviation
In commercial aviation, SA Trainer™ allows experienced commercial aviation pilots to develop situation awareness skills by:
- Building key mental models and schema for
- recognizing key patterns and critical cues – diagnosing problems
- projecting future events
- Realistic pre-flights
- new airports, airspace procedures and weather changes
- Providing situation awareness feedback
