Event Details and Registration

Part 91 pilots in Central Florida often make their most serious errors in airspace they know best. Familiar routes and predictable patterns create expectation bias and assumption driven decisions that replace verification with confidence. This seminar examines how routine operations degrade vigilance, how early mismatch cues can be detected, and how predefined interruption triggers preserve time and options. Using ASRS examples and Orlando area context, we will explore how high density mixed use airspace amplifies these traps and how a structured cognitive model, Expect Less → Observe More → Interrupt Early, helps pilots maintain judgment under ambiguity. The goal is sharper decision timing, not more information.

Please visit the Orlando Executive Airport FAASTeam Library web site:

 https://www.fsr-inc.org/FAAST/Seminar/Notice.aspx

From Colonial Drive turn south on Rickenbacker Dr. Continue through the Fairgreen St intersection to the end of Rickenbacker Dr. and into the parking lot. Park in any available designated spot. Walk east to the Airport Administration Building.

Orlando Executive Airport (ORL)
365 Rickenbacker Dr.
Orlando, FL 32802

For additional and background information, please visit the Orlando Executive Airport FAASTeam Library web site: https://www.fsr-inc.org/FAAST/Seminar/Notice.aspx

Background
Most human factors training addresses fatigue, stress, and workload in general terms. Accident and ASRS data show a different pattern in Central Florida: pilots make assumption based errors precisely because the airspace feels familiar. Predictability and routine down regulate vigilance, creating a silent risk amplifier. This seminar isolates those environment specific traps and applies a cognitive model that teaches pilots to expect less, observe more, and interrupt early when cues don’t fit.
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Relevant ACS Elements
Private Pilot ACS 
PA.I.D-Aeronautical Decision Making (ADM) and Risk Management
PA.II-Preflight Planning and Personal?Minimums
PA.VIII-Emergency Operations
Commercial Pilot ACS 
CA.I.D-ADM and Professionalism
CA.II-Preflight Planning and Risk Assessment
CA.VIII-Emergency Operations
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Teaching Points

• Familiar airspace cognitive traps and expectation bias
• Assumption driven errors replacing verification
• Early mismatch detection and interruption triggers
• Orlando/F11 operational factors that amplify risk
• ASRS examples illustrating early expectation lock in and successful interruption

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Key Takeaways

• Familiar airspace increases, not decreases, risk
• Expectation forms earlier than pilots recognize
• Mismatch cues are detectable if you know what to look for
• Early interruption preserves time and options
• Structured cognitive model improves judgment under ambiguity

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FAA References

• FAA Human Factors Guide for Aviation
• Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (FAA H 8083 25C), Ch. 2
• AC?60 22 (Aeronautical Decision Making)
• AC?61 98D (Proficiency and WINGS)
• NASA ASRS Database (https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov)

•    FAA Human Factors Videos (FAA YouTube channel)

Thanks to Lindsey Merced at the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority (GOAA) for use of their Administrative Offices, to Senior FAASTeam Rep David Conrad for registration and handouts,to FAASTeam Rep and WINGSPro Eric Mason, M.D.,to FAASTeam Rep Steve Moore, to FAASTeam Rep and DRONEPro KC Sealock, to Obie Young, Florida Aviation Network, a FAASTeam Industry Member, and to John Tenney, FAASTeam Rep.