Volume 5
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Safety and licensing authorities the world over are realising that people skills can, and must, be learnt.

What are people skills?
People skills include communication, leadership, decision making and knowledge of our human condition and the environmental factors of flight.  The ultimate aim is to develop an awareness of, and compensation for, the limitations of the human body and mind in flight.

Why learn such skills?
To survive and to ensure our crew and passengers survive.
It's our responsibility!

Airlines are placing greater emphasis on human factors training and safety authorities are including a greater element of human factors in examinations at all licence levels.

The PPL examination includes some questions on this important topic area.  At CPL level the examination includes some questions on this important topic area.  At CPL level the examination is returning to single-subject examinations and therefore there is one exam dedicated to human aspects.  The Aviation Theory Centre has prepared two volumes which give you the choice depending on your career path:

• Human Performance and Limitations (This publication)
  This manual is for pilots who do not intend going beyond the Day VFR PPL / CPL syllabus
• Human Factors for the Professional Pilot
  This manual is a more complex manual for the professional pilot who intends to continue to ATPL