Study of the pilot’s attention in the cabin during the flight

The pilot, while performing certain tasks or being in the battlefield environment works in a time lag. He is forced to properly interpret the information and quickly and correctly take action. Therefore, the instruments in the cabin should be arranged in such a way that they are legible and the operator have always-easy access to them. Due to the dynamics of the aircraft and the time needed to process the information by the pilot, a reaction delay occurs, resulting in the plane flying in an uncontrolled manner even up to several hundred meters. This article discusses the VFR and IFR flight characteristics, the pilot’s attention during flight, cabin ergonomics, and the placement of on-board instruments having a significant impact on the safety of the task performed in the air. In addition, tests have been carried out to determine exactly what the pilot’s eye is aimed at while completing the aerial task. Six basic devices were identified: altimeter, artificial horizon, speedometer, turn indicator with transverse gauge, variometer and heading indicator. They also started to think about how to position them in relation to each other in order to achieve the best results in terms of ergonomics, which include, minimizing time of reading individual parameters, grouping devices with parameters closely related to each other, reducing to a minimum the value of errors during reading and the smallest possible pilot’s effort.