Situation Awareness: Modelling, Measurement, and Impacts

The issue of how to support, model, and measure situation awareness (SA) among pilots and crew members of modern military and commercial aircraft is becoming more important with the introduction of sophisticated control and display technologies, automation, and decision aids to cockpits and crew stations. As a result of Desert Storm, the military, especially the Air Force, has renewed its interest in SA and hopes to determine its impact on aircrew combat effectiveness. The Air Force's operational community has adopted the following definition of SA: