In every issue, Ashgate's Human Factors and Aerospace Safety: An International Journal publishes an invited, critical review of a key area from a widely-respected researcher. To celebrate the first three years of the journal and to make these papers available to a wider audience, they have been collated here into a single volume. The book is divided into three sections, with papers addressing safety issues in flight deck design, aviation operations and training, and air traffic management. These papers describe the state of current research within a practical context and present a potential future research agenda. Contemporary Issues in Human Factors and Aviation Safety will appeal to both professionals and researchers in the aviation and associated industries who are interested in learning more about current issues in flight safety.

Contents: Design: Integrated safety system design and human factors considerations for jet transport aeroplanes, John D. Applegate and R. Curtis Graeber
Head-up displays and visual attention: integrating data and theory, Geoffrey W. Stuart, Ken I. McAnally and James W. Meehan
Reviewing the role of cockpit alerting systems, Amy R. Pritchett
Minimising pilot error by design: are test pilots doing a good enough job?, Gideon Singer
Passenger safety in future very large transport aircraft, Helen Muir, Lauren Thomas and Rebecca Wilson. Operations and Training: A review of the benefits of aviation human factors training, Graham D. Edkins
Development of the NOTECHS (non-technical skills) system for assessing pilots' CRM skills, Rhona Flin, Lynne Martin, Klaus-Martin Goeters, Hans-Jürgen Hörmann, René Amalberti, Claude Valot and Herman Nijhuis
Teamwork at 35,000 feet: enhancing safety through team training, C. Shawn Burke, Katherine A. Wilson and Eduardo Salas
Why we need new accident models, Sidney W.A. Dekker
Drinking and flying: causes, effects and the development of effective countermeasures, Don Harris. Air Traffic Management: Control workload, airspace capacity and future systems, Peter Brooker
Developing human informed automation in air traffic management, Barry Kirwan
Spinning paper into glass: transforming flight progress strips, Francis T. Durso and Carol A. Manning
Index.