Submitting Campus
Prescott
Department
Applied Aviation Sciences
Document Type
Poster
Publication/Presentation Date
4-6-2017
Abstract/Description
“All too often, pilots tell me they don't need physiological training because they don't fly that high. The statement points out the general feelings of a large majority of the aviation population. I suppose then the burning question is ‘why do we still have aircraft accidents?’” (Boshers, 2015). To this day there are no statistics on how often general aviation pilots experience hypoxia during everyday operations. General aviation pilots (i.e. non-commercial operations) were chosen for this study because:
- Little regulation regarding flight physiology training
- General attitude of invulnerability towards hypoxia
- No requirement to report hypoxia or similar events
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
31st National Conference on Undergraduate Research
Location
The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Scholarly Commons Citation
Holt, T. B., Luedtke, J., & Schindler, C. (2017). General Aviation Hypoxia and Reporting Statistics. , (). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/publication/457
