SOUTH AFRICAN AIRLINE PILOTS' PERCEPTIONS OF ADVANCED FLIGHT DECK AUTOMATION

摘要

This article reports on the construction of the Automation Attitude Questionnaire (AAQ), to assess airline pilots' perceptions about operating advanced automated aircraft. A total of 262 airline pilots from a large South African carrier participated in the validation of the questionnaire. A five-factor measurement model was established by using exploratory factor analysis. The five factors associated with perceptions of advanced automated systems were labelled as: Comprehension, Training, Trust, Workload, and Design. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients and the mean inter-item correlation of each factor were highly satisfactory and confirmed the homogeneity and unidimensionality of the five-factor solution for the AAQ.