All the sources written about below pertain to flying and human characteristics involved in such aspects. These sources have been looked over and written using specific criteria to ensure the accuracy and credibility of each source. The main point touched upon by each of the sources pertain to human workload and stress factors on pilots in today’s world. The problem constantly encountered in usual and unusual flight characteristics boil down to human workload in some way. Two of the sources “Human factors in flight” by Craig S. Funk and “Test Pilots” by Richard P. Haillion both identify the key human needs and problems stemming from workload errors in flight.

Hallion, R. P. (1992). Test pilots: The frontiersmen of flight. Washington, D.C.: Smitsonian Inst. Pr. …show more content…
The pilots that undertake this everyday routine are required to complete everything they do in a timely manner and consistently do the same thing over again to perfection. The only problem is that to achieve this perfection, mistakes must be made. The mistakes are made with the test pilots, and the innovations that help our every day life are also born here. “The most dangerous part of flying is leaving the ground, because from there the only place to go is down” -unknown. As a passenger in today’s airline industry, people constantly refer to how safe something is or how safe can it be, but the test pilots are the one who determine this. The amount of stress and the workload placed on a pilot that is flying an airplane that’s has no possible checklist or prior flight experience is unimaginable. It’s not only your job to fly the airplane, but to figure out how to break the airplane. The one thing that keeps you safe, is the exact thing you need to determine if it is safe or