5 feet Height for a commercial pilot?
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5 feet Height for a commercial pilot?
Hi,
I am an apsiring pilot.I have dony my initial class 2 medical and have passed it. My main concern is that I am only 5 feet tall (154cm). So I wan't to know of someone of my height can become a pilot?
Here in India , I have checked with majority of companies and majority of them don't have any minimum height criteria. Only 2 airlines have minimum
criteria and that too at 152cm.
So for a person of my height can I operate and reach the rudders of an a320 or b737?
Looking forward for a positive reply
I am an apsiring pilot.I have dony my initial class 2 medical and have passed it. My main concern is that I am only 5 feet tall (154cm). So I wan't to know of someone of my height can become a pilot?
Here in India , I have checked with majority of companies and majority of them don't have any minimum height criteria. Only 2 airlines have minimum
criteria and that too at 152cm.
So for a person of my height can I operate and reach the rudders of an a320 or b737?
Looking forward for a positive reply
It's not only the overall height that matters. People vary quite a lot in the lengths of the individual body dimensions. Reach, sitting eye height ... I am not an expert.
I suspect that I for example at about 180cm have a long back and lower legs but quite short thighs by proportion. I am specially adapted for coach class in other words.
The military for example may exclude people with long thighs since an ejector seat can be particularly unfriendly for those with sticky-out knees. A military pilot medical measures you in many different ways. There surely must be a civilian equivalent?
You could also ask this on a part of pprune that has global attention.
https://www.pprune.org/tech-log-15/ or
just whack in it rumours and news. It is not as if there are hundreds of new threads appearing there every day and you have a serious question. Someone will move it if necessary.
For sure someone on pprune must know about this.
I did a bit of digging
I suspect that I for example at about 180cm have a long back and lower legs but quite short thighs by proportion. I am specially adapted for coach class in other words.
The military for example may exclude people with long thighs since an ejector seat can be particularly unfriendly for those with sticky-out knees. A military pilot medical measures you in many different ways. There surely must be a civilian equivalent?
You could also ask this on a part of pprune that has global attention.
https://www.pprune.org/tech-log-15/ or
just whack in it rumours and news. It is not as if there are hundreds of new threads appearing there every day and you have a serious question. Someone will move it if necessary.
For sure someone on pprune must know about this.
I did a bit of digging
I didn't find an answer but did find a bit of relevant material.
Ergonomics
For example, the ergonomic analysis for driving a car involves
Anthropometry
ergonomics4schools - anthropometry
Anthropometry tables give measurements of different body parts for men and women, and split into different nationalities
Anthropometrics, an introduction
At the other end of the scale, if you were designing an aeroplane cockpit, and needed to make sure everyone could reach a particular control, you would choose 5th percentile arm length – because the people with the short arms are the ones who are most challenging to design for. If they could reach the control, everyone else (with longer arms) would be able to.
as290b
Aviation Standard 290B
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...ZcD_MQ6AEIRDAG
https://www.sae.org/standards/content/as290a/
google [airbus Anthropometry]
Cockpit Design and Human Factors - AviationKnowledge
Anthropometry considerations in aviation include ...
Much further reading
google [human factors for civil flight deck design pdf]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...77705814012065
google [cockpit design ergonomics boeing]
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...0/1/012013/pdf
This study aims to highlight potential mismatches between the current cockpit design and the ergonomic design recommendations for anthropometric dimensions and seat design, which could be the roots of the problems faced by the pilots in the cockpit.
The anthropometric dimension applied for the overall seat design is set corresponding to the 5th of female to 95th of male as the overall population for the minimum and maximum design respectively.
Ergonomics
For example, the ergonomic analysis for driving a car involves
Anthropometry
ergonomics4schools - anthropometry
Anthropometry tables give measurements of different body parts for men and women, and split into different nationalities
Anthropometrics, an introduction
At the other end of the scale, if you were designing an aeroplane cockpit, and needed to make sure everyone could reach a particular control, you would choose 5th percentile arm length – because the people with the short arms are the ones who are most challenging to design for. If they could reach the control, everyone else (with longer arms) would be able to.
as290b
Aviation Standard 290B
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...ZcD_MQ6AEIRDAG
https://www.sae.org/standards/content/as290a/
google [airbus Anthropometry]
Cockpit Design and Human Factors - AviationKnowledge
Anthropometry considerations in aviation include ...
Much further reading
google [human factors for civil flight deck design pdf]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...77705814012065
google [cockpit design ergonomics boeing]
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...0/1/012013/pdf
This study aims to highlight potential mismatches between the current cockpit design and the ergonomic design recommendations for anthropometric dimensions and seat design, which could be the roots of the problems faced by the pilots in the cockpit.
The anthropometric dimension applied for the overall seat design is set corresponding to the 5th of female to 95th of male as the overall population for the minimum and maximum design respectively.
