Hi
jcjeant,
Shock and surprise are virtually impossible in a simulation cession ... unless you make suddenly appear on top of the dashboard .. a tarantula or a poisonous snake or even a mouse when female pilots on training ...
Actually, I have a family member who is working on the development and installation of two new nuclear reactors for electrical power generation here in the US. In order to take in account human psychological factors when things go wrong, they have a computer program they follow as it relates to S & S.
She calls it Human Risk Analysis, and they use an HRA calculator from EPRI as the tool. They go through plant operating procedures and identify human actions that could be a pre-initiator to an event or a post-initiator that could inhibit mitigating systems. They also identify operator actions necessary to mitigate an accident. They can quantify Human Error Probability (HEP) with the HRA calculator knowing various environmental factors, the approximated stress level of the operator/operators, the complexity of the procedures that must be followed, and the time window available to perform the action. All of these inputs are combined using various statistical methods in the HRA calculator, resulting in in a human error probability. If the analysis depicts a high HEP, the controls, control panels and procedures are reviewed and reworked to lower the HEP within acceptable levels.
She thinks that responses to aircraft accident scenarios are also highly proceduralized and imagines that similar methods could also be used in the aviation industry.
Just some food for thought....