Flight Energy Management Training: Promoting Safety and Efficiency

Flight Energy Management Training: Promoting Safety and Efficiency

Poor aircraft energy management can lead to unsafe and inefficient operations. Despite their impact on safety and economy, energy management skills are not adequately taught or evaluated in civilian pilot training. This paper 1) addresses the need for better energy management training, 2) provides a conceptual and pedagogical framework for later curriculum development, and 3) suggests key attri...

Flight Safety Assessment and Management during Takeoff

The goal of a safety management system is to monitor sensors, identify hazards and mitigate risk to the extent possible. In this paper, we present a novel approach called Flight Safety Assessment and Management (FSAM) to assess key quantitative and qualitative feedback parameters for loss of control (LOC) risk. Decision making logic is specified as a set of hierarchical timed automata models. L...

Safety, Efficacy, and Efficiency: Design of Experiments in Flight Test

Modern flight test tends to be a complex, expensive undertaking so any increases in efficiency would result in considerable savings. Design of experiments is a statistical methodology which results in highly efficient flight test where only the samples needed are collected and analyzed. Design of experiments uses objective, verifiable statistical analysis to plan, execute, and analyze test. Thi...

Increasing Energy Efficiency by Reducing Losses and Promoting Value Propositions

Promoting health care safety through training high reliability teams.

Many organizations have been using teams as a means of achieving organizational outcomes (such as productivity and safety). Research has indicated that teams, especially those operating in complex environments, are not always effective. There is a subset of organizations in which teams operate that are able to balance effectiveness and safety despite the complexities of the environment (for exa...