Comprehensive Review on Aviation Operator’s Total Loads

In the aviation environment and air transport operations, safety is the most crucial element of the system; maintaining safe aeronautical operations is highly dependent on the aviation operators’ actions and reactions. Cognitive loads reflect the human contribution to the system; mental, communication, information, task, and workload shape the aviation total loads. The number of aviation accidents and incidents caused by human factors increases rapidly due to intensive technology and automation in aviation. Such recent examples of human-contributed aviation accidents can be given like (i) Casa 212-200, N497CA Flight accident, (ii) Ethiopian Airlines, ET-343 flight accident. Many previous studies focused on measuring the total load of pilots and ATCOs through different processes and flight scenarios using multiple sensors & devices. This paper reviews a variety of experimental studies differentiating the methodologies, scope, and outcomes. Eventually, the paper introduces a compromised and novel approach for measuring aviation operator loads in multiple scenarios.