HPL Flashcards
Vitamin for night vision
Vitamin A
Alcohol metabolised __mg/100ml/hour
15mg/100ml per hour
Maintaining Internal equilibrium is called ______
Homeostasis
What is self-concept?
How you see yourself
What law governs oxygen transfer at the alveoli?
Fick’s Law (Gas Diffusion Law)
What does Boyle’s Law state
Climb higher, gases expand (in body too)
Henry’s Law is?
Amount of gas dissolved in liquid proportional to pressure of gas over liquid
Dalton’s Law is?
Pressure of mixture of gas is sum of partial pressure of member gases
Total Lung Capacity (ml)
6000ml = 5000ml Vital Capacity + 1000ml Residual Volume
TUC at 20000ft (Rest)
30mins
TUC at 30000ft (Rest)
60-120secs
TUC at 35000ft (Rest)
30-90secs
TUC at 40000ft (Rest)
15-20secs
Each beat of heart pumps ___ml of blood
70ml
Scotopic vision
Night
Photopic Vision
Day
Alcohol limit
20mg or 0.2promille
Eye sight degredation due to age is?
Presbyopia
General Adaptation Syndrome stages are…
1) Alarm
2) Resistance
3) Exhaustion
REM Sleep gets longer or shorter throughout cycles of sleep?
Longer
Cosmic Radiation monitors above ____ft
49,000ft
How many stages of sleep?
5 including REM
Long-term memory types and stores
Semantic - Gen Knowledge
Episodic - Memories
Procedural - Skills
Acronym SEP
Bottom-Up Mental Model
External Stimuli - Lines, Patterns and Planes
Top-Down Mental Model
Influenced by previous experience
expectations, knowledge and context. Could make false assumptions
Phases of Learning a Skill
Cognitive - Discuss theory
Associative - Demonstrated
Autonomous - Refined into Motor Programmes - Skill-Based Behaviour
Anderson’s Model (CAA)
Potential error categories unde TEM
Aircraft Handling
Procedural
Communication
Threats under TEM
Environmental
Organsiation
Pressoreceptors are located?
Carotid and Aortic arterial vessels and monitor blood pressure
What is Modelling when learning
Learning by imitation
1 Pack of Cigs a day loses % of total oxygen transportation
5-8%
Heart muscle is supplied with blood via
Coronary arteries
Haze affects perception of object
Appears futher away
Errors in Skill-Based Behaviour - Rasmussen
Routine Errors / Slips and Lapses
Decompression Sickness unlikely below
18,000ft
Dengue spread by Aedes Aegypti Mosquiti - During what period?
Daytime
Risky Shift is
Bravado
Group-think is
Group consensus
Indifferent Stage
Up to 10,000ft
Compensatory Stage
10,000ft - 15,000ft
Disturbance Stage
15,000 - 20,000ft
Critical Stage
20,000 - 23,000ft
Short Term memory issues at unpressurized altitude
> 12,000ft
Vision issues at what unpressurized altitude
> 5,000ft
Tidal Volume in ml
500ml
Cornea is
Front of eye - clear, focuses 70%
Pupil does what
Controls mount if light (controlled by iris)
Lens focus __%
30%
Cerebral Cortex deals with what?
Sight, Sound and Taste
Cerebellum
Movement / Balance / Posture
Blood from lung into what in heart?
Left Atrium (upper)
Left side of heart does what?
Pumps blood from lungs out to arteries via Aorta
What are External Errors typically caused by in cockpit
Ergonomics
Economics - Fewer crew/get there/etc
Social Environment
Carbon Monoxide causes which sort of Hypoxia
Hypaemic Hypoxia
DECIDE Model
Detect - Action may be needed Estimate - Significance of action Choose - Desired Outcome Identify - Actions need to acheive Do - Action Evaluate - Did it work?
NIHL above __ and pain above ___
90dB and 140dB
What does Hyperventilation do to arteries
Reduces diameter
100% O2 needed above
38,000ft
Pressue O2 needed above
40,000ft
% Oxygen breathing at 25,000ft
62%
Aerodontalgia usually occurs
During climb (pockets of air in teeth)
Lumbar supports the ___ back
lower back
Skill-based, Rule-based and Knowledge-based are associated with what?
Behaviours
GAS - Alarm Stage - What happens
React… Increase Heart-rate/breathing/saliva/blood to brain
GAS - Resistance - What happens
Parasympathetic response - glucose production
Maslow’s Model - Bottom to top
Need for survival Need for safety Need for love and belonging Need for self-esteem Self-actualisation
Hep-A from
Food/water (with human poop)
Can be vaccinated against
Hep B+C from
B bodily fluids, C blood only.
B Can be vaccinated against
Cyanosis is
Blue extremities (due to low O2)
Tympanum is
ear drum
Three components of TEM
Threats - Outside the control of the flight crew
Organisation/Environmental
Errors - Actions or Inactions leading to deviations from org or flight crew intentions
Aircraft Handling / Procedural / Comms
Undesired Aircraft States - Result of the above
Human error for common/simple tasks
1 in 100
Human error for complicated/stimulating tasks
1 in 1000
Total gas pressure in mmHg at sea level
760mmHg
Left side of heart does what
Takes oxygenated blood from lungs and pumps to body
Right side of heart does what
Takes deoxygenated blood from veins and returns to lungs
Part of heart connected to lungs
Atriums - top of heart
Bottom part of heart connected to Aorta and Vena Cava
Ventricles
Selective attention
Hearing attention in convo
Divided attention
Monitoring peripheral channels alongside primary - limited by over-arousal
Short of retina means ____ sightedness
short of retina = short sightedness (Myopia)
Irony of Automation is ….
That Pilots will be needed (and less competent) when the automation breaks!
100% O2 at 33,400ft is equiv. to what altitude
MSA