Which is another name for the fight or flight response? Sympathetic nervous system The "fight or flight response" is our body’s automatic response that prepares the body to "fight or flight" from perceived attack‚ harm or threat to ourselves. This response is something we are born with and has been in our systems for as long as humans have been alive. This "fight or flight" response happens when the internal or external stress activates the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal-cortical system
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Administration (FAA) and the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF)‚ CFIT can be caused by many factors. Nevertheless‚ it is primarily caused when a pilot or flight crew is unaware that a dangerous situation exists. Problems such as bad weather‚ information overload‚ instrument confusion‚ night flight‚ poor air traffic control communications‚ or malfunctioning ground navigational equipment all contribute to CFIT accidents. The purpose of this paper is to find whether flight instruments cause misinterpretations
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142 TRAINING CENTER SAMPLE FORMAL APPLICATION LETTER High Flight Aviation 922 Aviation Place Topeka‚ KS 76176 735-333-4444 (mm/dd/year) Federal Aviation Administration Kansas City‚ Flight Standards District Office 10100 Air Port Blvd‚ Suite 200 Kansas City‚ KS 78216-4118 Gentlemen: Please accept this letter as our formal application letter to apply for an FAA Part 142 training center certificated under the provisions of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Based on
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To understand the Fight or Flight response it helps to think about the role of emotions in our lives. Many of us would prefer to focus on our logical‚ thinking nature and ignore our sometimes troublesome emotions‚ but emotions have a purpose. Our most basic emotions like fear‚ anger or disgust are vital messengers: they evolved as signals to help us meet our basic needs for self-preservation and safety. It would be dangerous to be indecisive about a threat to our survival so the brain runs information
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The Ditching of Flight 1549 Raymond Westcott Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Dr. Gary Tindall June 03‚ 2012 Abstract The ditching of Untied Flight 1549 changed aviation forever. It tested LaGuardia airport ’s emergency plan while simultaneously testing the Emergency Alert Notification System that the New York and New Jersey area shared. The first responders were from both city ’s fire and police departments along with some brave civilian ferry boat operators. They acted quickly so that
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Surviving Flight 1549 Flight 1549 made a successful emergency landing into the Hudson River with no fatalities on January 15‚ 2009 due to the expertise and quick actions of the pilots‚ crew members‚ and emergency rescue workers. Katie Couric‚ a television journalist‚ conducted interviews with Captain Chesley Sullenberger‚ First Officer Jeff Skiles and flight attendants Donna Dent‚ Sheila Dail‚ and Doreen Welsh‚ along with many of the survivors‚ to try and understand how all 155 people
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Andrew Jacot Aviation Safety January 30‚ 2013 Pinnacle Airline Flight 3701 October 14‚ 2004 in Jefferson City‚ Missouri two pilots made a decision that would be fatal. The Captain was Jesse Rhodes and the First Officer was Peter Cesarz and were flying for Pinnacle Airlines. The plane they were flying was a Bombardier CRJ200‚ which is a twin-engine‚ 50 seat regional jet. The pilots had nobody on board so when they took off they immediately had their minds set on reaching 41‚000 feet to become
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Lee Campbell Flight 811 Investigation Anthony Vallido Aviation Safety 409 Abstract United Airlines Flight 811 left Honolulu bound for Auckland‚ New Zealand on February 24‚ 1989. A few minutes in the flight the cargo doors blew out and because of the decompression‚ nine passengers were immediately sucked out of the plane. The debris from the cargo door damaged the planes Number 3 and 4 engines. Captain David Cronin prepared for an emergency landing. The parents of one of the fatalities‚ Lee Campbell
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Secondary Flight Control Surfaces Aircraft secondary flight control surfaces In order for an aircraft to maneuver and maintain its stability‚ this required for aircraft to have control surfaces. Mainly‚ the aircraft are divided into two main control surfaces which are the primary flight control and the secondary flight control. The primary flight control is a basic control surfaces used to maneuver such as rolling‚ pitching and yawing. Meanwhile‚ secondary flight control surfaces
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generally describe training media as any physical means that communicates an instructional message to students. For example‚ the instructor’s voice‚ printed text‚ video cassettes‚ interactive computer programs‚ part-task trainers‚ flight training devices or flight simulators‚ and numerous other types of training devices are considered training media. Instructional aids‚ on the other hand‚ are devices that assist an instructor in the teaching-learning process. Instructional aids are not self-supporting;
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