Ergonomic Assessment of Instructors’ Capability to Conduct Personality-Oriented Training for Air Traffic Control (ATC) Personnel

Abstract

The mutual influence of the components of the safety paradigm of ICAO is explained from the standpoint of the manifestation of the human factor - “attitudes towards safe actions or conditions”. “Attitude” is characterized by the following indicators of decision-making: the main dominants (propensity, aversion, indifference to risk), levels of aspirations, and fuzzy estimates of risk on the ICAO scale. The indicators are examined through the attitude of ATC-students and professional ATCs to violations of the standards for the separation of aircrafts in horizontal flight. This made it possible to evaluate potential violations in well physically measured and interpreted distances between controlled aircraft. Quantitative indicators of violations were described in the algorithm for conducting personality-oriented simulator training of ATC-students. The additional instructor’s work load associated with the implementation of the algorithm is determined by the following indicators: stereotype (Zn = 0.58, which clearly fits the established standards of 0.25 ≤ Zn ≤ 0.85) and logical complexity (Ln = 0.30), which is 1.5 times higher than capabilities of the “average” operator. The paper suggests the directions for improvement of professional training of ATC-students.