PACDEFF/AAvPA 2021, 21/22 October
The conference this year will showcase not only the best of CRM and Aviation Human Factors with our PACDEFF traditional practitioner focus on Day 1 and 2, but will also allow delegates to gain wider exposure to research and discussion on Aviation Safety, Human Factors and Aviation Psychology topics, through the combined conference structure.
Proposed Program
PACDEFF 2021 will be a two day conference consisting of world class presentations and contemporary and relevant workshops.
It will be held over 21/22 October at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia
The call for speakers is now closed. However, we occasionally get a speaker withdraw, so if you would like to go on a standby list, we will advise you if a slot does open up. Feel free to send us an abstract or overview of your presentation topic and we will add you to the list.
Day 1 (21 October)
Combined forum with AAvPA
0900-0915 Welcome
0920-1005 Keynote 1: Professor Mark Wiggins (Macquarie University)
1010-1055 Keynote 2: Professor Leigh Signal (Sleep/Wake Research Centre)
1055-1125 Morning Tea
1125-1210 Keynote 3: James Redgrove (Dreamworld Safety)
1210-1310 Lunch
1310-1340 The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on seafarers’ mental health and chronic fatigue: beneficial effects of onboard peer support, external support and Internet access – Dr Michelle Grech
1340-1410 Self Evaluation and Looking for Help – Dr Natasha Yates (Bond University Medicine)
1410-1440 The effect of a common stressor – noise on pilot cognition – Dr Brett Molesworth
1440-1510 Afternoon Tea
1510-1540 Organisational decision making: How organisational inputs shape decisions in the cockpit and among front line operators – Dr Dirk Maclean
1540-1610 Pilot mental health: findings from a series of clinical interviews – Corrie Ackland and Tony Merritt
1610-1640 An update on Human Factors and Non-technical skills from an operational perspective – Capt. Ben Charters
1640-1700 Day 1 Wrap Up
1800-1900 Pre-dinner drinks – Barzura
1900-2200 Conference Dinner – Barzura
Day 2 – 22 October
PACDEFF Forum (Note AAvPA presentations will run all day in parallel sessions)
0900-0910 Welcome
0910-0935 44 years of CRM training, what you do not know and need to know – Stephen Walsh
0940-1005 Integrating Human Factors into Safety Management – Matt McKay
1010-1035 Best practice Interviewing Techniques for Human Factors Investigations in Aviation and Rail – Danni Maynard
1035-1100 Morning Tea
Flight Crew Forum
1100-1130 Emerging Technologies and Negative Training – Tony Power
1130-1200 Delivering value from an eye-tracking based training aid in a military flight training environment – Alexander Robinson and Rama Myers
1200-1230 The affordances of VR for training novel event management in aerospace – Capt. Cameron Tribe
Human Factors Forum 1
1100-1130 Research Results on Cabin Crew training – Maria Fernanda Larrea Sotomayor
1130-1200 A Human Factors Perspective on the Qantas Response to COVID – Carolyn Vaughan
1200-1230 Utilising Eye Tracking data to identify Startle and Surprise in Pilots – Cdr Aruna Ranganathan
ATC and General Topics Forum
1100-1130 ATC HF Topic TBA – Colleen Kitson
1130-1200 ATC HF Topic TBA – Bill Appleby
1200-1230 Human Factors in Helicopter EMS Operations – Capt. Lachlan Slatyer
1230-1315 Lunch
1315-1445 Workshop 1: Human & Organisational Performance, and Operational Learning Teams (Andy Shone)
1315-1445 Workshop 2: Maintaining Safety While Emerging from COVID Affected Operations (Andy Elliott and Peter Geddes)
1445-1515 Afternoon Tea
1515-1645 Workshop 3: Facilitator Skills for Human Factors Trainers (Belinda Warner, Jana Ewing, Kiralee Tynan)
1515-1645 Workshop 4: Providing Support for Flight Crew and Cabin Crew Mental Health (Capt. Chris Smith)
1645-1700 Day 2 and Conference Wrap Up
Forum 2 – AAvPA
09:00-09:25 Embodied sensemaking: Responding to the non-normal in high reliability work contexts – Brad Roberts
09:25-09:50 Systems thinking training for better safety performance at the Maritime regulator – Mal Christie
09:50-10:15 Testing the validity of High Reliability in Organisations – Nicola MacPhail
10:15-10:35 The effect of surprise on performance and how noise moderates its effect – Michael Manning
1035-1100 Morning Tea
11:00-11:20 Maintenance Check Flight Events – Causes and Factors – Jay Nagy
11:20-11:40 Positive deviance: Capturing, codifying and controlling innovative violations – Tony Bannister-Tyrell
11:45-12:05 Investigating Predictors of Pilots’ Risk-Taking Propensity Yassmin Ebrahim
12:05-12:30 The odds of exposure to unsafe weather from aerodrome forecast use – David Wilson
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15-13:40 Eye-tracking in aviation: where to now? – Dr Matt Ebbatson
13:40-14:00 – Flight instructor perceptions of the value of visual scan behaviour in the assessment of pilot performance – Matt Gray
14:05-14:25 – Aircraft visibility study – Mangalore mid air – Nathalie Boston and Michael Dawes
14:25-14:45 Analysis of runway incursions from a human factors perspective – Yan Yan, Soufiane Boufous and Brett Molesworth
14:45 – 15:15 Afternoon tea
15:15-15:35 Implementing Human Factors Solutions for Australian Flight Training Schools: Part 2 – Selina Fothergill and Michael White
15:35-15:55 A comparison between Australian and European pilots’ confidence in ‘just culture’ – Kevin McMurtrie
16:00-16:20 Effects of auditory and visual feedback on remote pilot manual flying performance – Matthew Dunn
16:20-16:40 Investigation report – Human Factors issues in relation to AO-2019-050 Anna Bay – Max Marton
16:45-17;00 Conference Wrap Up
Social Events
The following social events are planned to allow networking opportunities:
20 Oct – A free informal welcome sponsored by Southpac Aerospace, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Coogee Beach (1730-1930)
21 Oct – Conference Dinner at Barzura Restaurant (adjacent to the hotel) Tickets available online via the Registration Booking site.
