AGI - Flight Physiology

If an individual has gone scuba diving which has not required a controlled ascent and will be flying to a cabin pressure altitudes of 8,000 feet or less, the recommended waiting time is at least?

12 hours.

If an individual has gone scuba diving which has required a controlled ascent and will be flying to cabin pressure altitudes of 8,000 feet or less, the recommended waiting time is at least?

24 hours.

Although not required, supplemental oxygen is recommended for use when flying at night above

5,000 feet.

What physical change would most likely occur to occupants of an unpressurized aircraft flying above 15,000 feet without supplemental oxygen?

A blue coloration of the lips and fingernails develop along with tunnel vision.

Which statement is true regarding alcohol in the human system?

Alcohol renders a pilot more susceptible to hypoxia.

What effect does haze have on the ability to see traffic or terrain features during flight?

All traffic or terrain features appear to be farther away than their actual distance.

Name some hazardous attitudes that can affect your judgment during the aeronautical decision making (ADM) process:

Antiauthority, impulsivity, and resignation.

Hazardous attitudes occur to every pilot to some degree at sometime. What are some of these hazardous attitudes?

Antiauthority, impulsivity, macho, resignation, and invulnerability.

When should a flight instructor begin teaching aeronautical decision making (ADM) to a student?

As soon as the student is able to control the aircraft during basic maneuvers.

How should an instructor introduce distractions?

Ask the student to get something from the back seat.

Which statement concerning hypoxia true?

Belligerence or a false sense of security may be symptoms of hypoxia.

What is the best way to teach students how to multi-task while flying?

Help students develop both types of multitasking abilities, including attention switching and simultaneous performance.

Rapid or extra deep breathing while using oxygen can cause?

Hyperventilation.

What should a pilot do when recognizing a thought as hazardous?

Label the thought as hazardous and then correct that thought by stating the corresponding antidote.

What is an effective way to prevent a collision hazard in the traffic pattern?

Maintain the proper traffic pattern altitude and continually scan the area.

All experienced pilots have fallen prey to, or have been tempted by, one or more of these dangerous tendencies or behavior problems at sometime in their career. Select the answer that best describes these tendencies.

Peer pressure, loss of situational awareness, and operating with inadequate fuel reserves.

What are the four fundamental risk elements in the aeronautical decision making (ADM) process that comprise any given aviation situation?

Pilot, aircraft, environment, and mission.

In the aeronautical decision making (ADM) process, what is the first step in neutralizing a hazardous attitude?

Recognizing hazardous thoughts.

How can smoking affect a pilot?

Reduces the oxygen carrying capability of the blood.

Which procedure is recommended to prevent or overcome spatial disorientation.

Rely entirely on the indications of the flight instruments.

Risk management, as part of the aeronautical decision making (ADM) process, relies on which features to reduce the risks associated with each flight?

Situational awareness, problem recognition, and good judgment.

Which technique should a student be taught to scan for traffic to the right and left during straight and level flight?

Systematically focus on different segments of the sky for short intervals.

What suggestion could you make to students who are experiencing motion sickness?

Tell the student to avoid unnecessary head movement and keep their eyes on a point outside the aircraft.

Hyperventilation results in

a lack of carbon dioxide in the body.

Anemic hypoxia has the same symptoms as hypoxic hypoxia but it is most often a result of

a leaking exhaust manifold.

Hazardous attitudes which contribute to poor pilot judgment can be effectively counteracted by

an appropriate antidote.

Success in reducing stress associated with a crisis in the cockpit begins with

assessing stress areas in one's personal life.

The most effective technique to use for detecting other aircraft at night is to

avoid staring directly at the point where another aircraft is suspected to be flying.

Dark adaptation is impaired by exposure to

cabin pressure altitudes above 5,000 feet.

Most midair collision accidents occur during

clear days in the vicinity of navigational aids.

Examples of classic behavioral traps that experienced pilots may fall into are to

complete a flight as planned, please passengers, meet schedules, and "get the job done".

Motion sickness is caused by

continued stimulation of the tiny portion of the inner ear which controls sense of balance.

One aid in increasing night vision effectiveness would be to

force the eyes to view off center.

The aeronautical decision making (ADM) process identifies several steps involved in good decision making. One of these steps is

identifying personal attitudes hazardous to safe flight.

The advantage of experiencing hypoxia in an altitude chamber is

it helps pilots learn to recognize their own symptoms in a controlled environment.

During training flights, an instructor should interject realistic distractions to determine if a student can

maintain aircraft control while his/her attention is diverted.

A rapid acceleration can create the illusion of being in a

noseup attitude.

Hypoxia is the result of

reduced barometric pressures at altitude.

During a climb to 18,000 feet, the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere

remains the same.

A person should be able to overcome the symptoms of hyperventilation by

slowing the breathing rate and increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the body.

Aeronautical decision making (ADM) can be defines as a

systematic approach to the mental process used by pilots to consistently determine the best course of action in response to a given set of circumstances.

In order to gain a realistic perspective on one's attitude toward flying, a pilot should

take a Self-Assessment Hazardous Attitude Inventory Test.

Human behavior causes

three out of four accidents.

The DECIDE process consists of six elements to help provide a pilot logical way of approaching aeronautical decision making. The elements are:

to detect, estimate, choose, identify, do, and evaluate.

To help manage cockpit stress, a pilot should

try to relax and think rationally at the first sign of stress.

An illusion that the aircraft is at a higher altitude than it actually is, is produced by

upsloping terrain.