Knowledge Requirement: Physiological Factors

In plain language

You need to understand how fatigue, sleep deprivation, jet lag, anaesthetics, hearing, and spatial disorientation (including illusions) affect your ability to fly safely.

Requirement as structured

RPAS pilots must understand the physiological effects of hearing, orientation and disorientation (including visual, perspective, and parallax illusions), body rhythms, jet lag, sleep, fatigue, and anaesthetics.

Original regulatory text

- Hearing - Orientation/disorientation (including visual/perspective/parallax illusions) - Body rhythms/jet lag - Sleep/fatigue - Anaesthetics

Applies when

country

Canada

max mtom kg

150

min mtom kg

0.25

regulatory category

General