Aerospace Physiology (Second Edition‪)‬

Aerospace physiology (also known as flight or aviation physiology, human factors, or aeromedical factors) is the scientific discipline studying the effects of flight conditions on human physiological and cognitive systems teaching aviators to work and function at peak efficiency in the abnormal environment of flight. This information is introduced to pilots throughout their training and includes hypoxia, spatial disorientation, visual illusions, fatigue, trapped gases, and many others. Unfortunately, all of these issues still create incidents and accidents for pilots on a regular basis even today. The reason for this disparity is pilots may know about the information but fail to understand it completely. This book will transform a pilot’s potential misinterpretation of this subject matter into definitive action on the flight deck.
The most current, authoritative, and comprehensive resource on this critical subject is Aerospace Physiology: Aeromedical and Human Performance Factors in Aviation (Second Edition). This book provides professional-grade information for enhancing safety-of-flight for all pilot experience levels. The book was written for use in academic settings and is currently the preferred text on flight physiology for the world-renowned University of North Dakota’s John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, plus other university aviation programs.
The book’s twenty-two chapters follow a logical presentation format, with each chapter thoroughly discussing the topic in understandable language, followed by core competency questions. Each topic details the environmental causes, potential physiological & cognitive responses, plus effective and proven anticipation & mitigation strategies. The book uses the most recent research and experience-based information combined with current aviation incidents and accidents that illustrate how these issues present themselves in realistic flight environments, followed by discussions on how those events may have been prevented. The information in this book is based on Mr. Martin’s thirty years of military and civilian aviation experience, as well as modeled after the US Air Force’s Physiological Training Program for pilots and the comprehensive European Union Aviation Safety Agency’s (EASA) flight physiology human performance standards.
Using Aerospace Physiology: Aeromedical and Human Performance Factors for Pilots (Second Edition) as your learning or teaching resource will elevate your standard of training to its highest levels. The book is essential for all student pilots, certified flight instructors, and licensed private and professional pilots.

About the Author

As a subject matter expert in aerospace physiology, Mr. Martin’s direct involvement in the specialty of aerospace physiology has spanned over 30 years, having been personally involved in training well over 15,000 military and civilian pilots and aircrew members. This author’s operational experience has included training military pilots in not only aerospace physiology subject matter but also practical aircraft ejection and ground egress procedures, parachuting, survival techniques, high-G centrifuge training, extreme high-altitude training, spatial disorientation training, night vision, enhanced vision systems training, and fighter pilot physical conditioning programs. Mr. Martin’s civilian aerospace physiology teaching experience has included flight physiology academics and practical high-altitude chamber, spatial disorientation, visual limitations and optimization, enhanced vision systems, and flight deck smoke and fumes training.
Mr. Martin’s education has included academic studies at the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, the University of North Dakota, the Community College of the Air Force, and most importantly, personal experience in all subject areas.
Mr. Martin’s goal has been to provide the most current, accurate, relevant, and innovative training possible involving this scientific specialty. Mr. Martin’s training has included military and civilian survival schools, military parachutist training, research and observation flights in virtually every fixed-wing and rotorcraft airframe, live-fire ejection seat training, over 80 six to nine-G human centrifuge profiles, unmanned aerial systems training (MQ-9 Predator), thousands of high-altitude and rapid decompression hypobaric chamber flights, and 100’s of research flights in specialized full-motion spatial disorientation and visual illusion simulators, and flight simulators.