Operational Errors in Air Traffic

Data Mining of Air Traffic Control Operational Errors

In this paper we present the results of applying data mining techniques to identify patterns and anomalies in air traffic control operational errors (OEs). Reducing the OE rate is of high importance and remains a challenge in the aviation safety community. Existing studies, which use traditional methods and focus on individual aspects of OEs, are limited to operations at a single facility, or e...

Student Modelling for Operational Skill Training in Air Traffic Control

Current student modelling techniques cannot be applied directly to operational training on simulators in complex and dynamic worlds such as Air Traffic Control because of the lack of appropriate expert models and time constraints. The objective of this research is to present a student modelling approach for individualising the simulation training that (1) is specific to operational skill traini...

Air Traffic Management Capacity - Driven Operational Concept Through 2015

This paper describes an approach to developing an operational concept for the US National Airspace System. This approach carefully ties the system mission, the functions that the system must perform and the available resources, and presents a logical functional structure for the overall system that ties together functions, resources and subsystems. A key aspect of this approach is a careful flo...

Operational Use of the Air Traffic Selection and Training Battery

Errors in Operational Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets are used in almost all businesses, for applications ranging from the mundane to the missioncritical. Errors in the data, formulas, or manipulation of spreadsheets could be costly, even devastating. The received wisdom is that about 5% of all formulas in spreadsheets contain errors, and this rate is consistent across spreadsheets. However, this estimate is based on five studies, som...