Although research and implementation of maintenance human factors programs at many airlines and repair stations continues unabated, industry sources report that recurrent funding of such initiatives ...

Human factors have become a readily accepted concept in the avia-tion maintenance community. Many organizations worldwide have either heard of or tried to consider the role of human factors in their ...

The Federal Aviation Administration Tuesday announced the debut of an online training program on the importance of "human factors." The Web Course consists of 10 self-guided lessons about the role ...

Dr Bert Boquet heads the human factors and systems department at Daytona Beach, Florida-based Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He recently led a team which applied a human factors analysis and ...

The US FAA is proposing to close a human factors loophole in the regulations governing the certification of transport category aircraft with increasingly advanced-technology integrated flight decks.

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told Boeing Co (BA.N), opens new tab that some key documents submitted as part of the agency's ongoing certification review of ...