ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to provide the reader with an understanding of effective human factors practices as applied to design, test, and evaluation of commercial air transport flight decks. One of the most significant but often overlooked process tools for human factors design is the establishment of clear and concise design philosophies. The chapter focuses on the right set of tools into practice and using them in the context of a real-world engineering development program; the development, design, and testing of a new airplane or a derivative of a previous airplane design. The modern-day pilot must aviate, navigate, and communicate as well as manage complex airplane systems. The former method requires specific tests in a controlled environment, whereas the latter method is adaptable to being performed throughout a flight test program, even without specific test conditions, if the evaluating pilots are familiar with the work load characteristics of the comparison airplane.
