Soft Courses · Human Factors
Human Factors
Very few incidents are purely technical. This is the course about the person flying — how we make errors, and how to catch them before they matter.
One dayStart and finish in a single day
Every 2 yearsRenewed on a two-year cycle
Open to allGuthrie students and visiting crews are welcome
What’s covered
- How and why people make errors — error and violation types
- Situational awareness: how it is lost, and how to rebuild it
- Decision-making under pressure and time constraint
- Communication, assertiveness and speaking up
- Workload, stress, fatigue and complacency
- The “Dirty Dozen” human-factor traps
- Threat and error management
- Just culture, and why reporting matters
How often you need it
Human factors training is renewed every two years. One day every second year keeps you current — and it’s the training pilots most often say changed how they fly.
Why it’s worth doing
- Catches the errors behind most incidents — the ones no checklist covers
- Better teamwork and communication, in the cockpit and in the hangar
- Underpins a working safety management system and a just culture
Courses run on scheduled dates through the year — see the calendar or ask us for the next intake.
Book Human Factors
One day, and you’re current. Tell us which date suits you and we’ll book you in.