Modern socio - technical systems are becoming more and more complex, thus we are in need of a sophisticated method which will enable us to understand and analyse such systems in detail. New methods are emerging for this particular purpose, yet they are presently still developing. This work focuses on analysing an example of a socio - technical system. This system is based on the tasks that a pilot of a small, general aviation aircraft has to accomplish to successfully perform flight operations. The analysis of the system is conducted with the FRAM method. At first we describe how the observed system works, then we apply the FRAM to this description. This work contributes to the development of the FRAM because it provides an example of an application of the method to a complex socio - technical system. This work also includes an attempt to identify a new analytical step, which would bring this method closer to a computer simulation of different system situations.
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