Abstract: A system for assessing safe fulfillment of a mission plan or flight plan by a pilot receives physiological pilot monitoring data sensed inflight while the pilot is executing a flight plan. The system correlates pilot monitoring data with specific flight operations performs a post-flight fatigue assessment of the pilot (e.g., a performance score with respect to the completed flight plan and/or an assessment of the current fatigue state of the pilot). The system adds the pilot's post-flight fatigue state assessment to an individualized pilot profile. On receiving a subsequent flight plan for fulfillment by the pilot, the system performs a pre-flight risk assessment based on all available information, e.g., a risk assessment with respect to the pilot's fulfillment of the flight plan as a whole and/or specific risk assessments corresponding to fulfillment of component flight operations of the flight plan.

Abstract: An aircraft-based system for tracking and verifying control inputs from potentially incapacitated pilot stores to memory expected control input sets, e.g., control procedures for controlling an aircraft through segments of a flight plan. When pilot monitors indicate a state of potential incapacitation of a pilot (e.g., fatigue, unresponsiveness, hypoxia), the control input tracking system records any control inputs submitted via the flight deck controls by the incapacitated pilot, reviewing each recorded control input compared to expected control inputs (e.g., for the current flight segment). When a recorded control input sufficiently deviates from the corresponding expected control input (e.g., such that aircraft safety or mission criticality may be affected), the pilot and/or flight crew may receive feedback alerting to the deviant control input (e.g., which may be overridden or which may require confirmation prior to execution).