Appendix B-Full Text “Operational Benefits of a Fatigue Risk Management System” Captain Don Gunther, Continental Airlines Abstract Appendix B-Full Text 40 C. PARALLEL SESSION: OPERATIONAL EVIDENCE OF FATIGUE: FLIGHT OPERATIONS 41 “Effects of Fatigue on Operational Performance” John A. Caldwell, Ph.D., Archinoetics, LLC Abstract Appendix B-Full Text 43 “Sleep and Psychomotor Performance during C...

With more than two billion passengers worldwide travelling by air each year, vast amounts of lost luggage and disposable paper adhesive luggage tags are pushing the aviation industry to improve luggage tracking and reduce the one-off adhesive luggage paper tags. This paper reviews the current application of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in the luggage handling system and proposes the In...

While the issue of civil aviation safety has attracted serious public concern, notably few studies have investigated civil aviation safety efficiency. In this paper, a definition of civil aviation safety efficiency is proposed for the first time. Inputs to the proposed civil aviation safety efficiency model are labor, capital, fund and technology. The outputs are the percent of the passenger tu...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the status of women's participation in full-time, non-engineering aviation baccalaureate programs in the United States. In addition, the involvement of women in academic aviation leadership positions (such as chair, dean, or director) was evaluated. Of 353 full-time aviation faculty members employed at 60 different aviation programs meeting the study'S c...

This report details the second phase of the Office of Aviation Medicine research program on Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance. This on-going research program enhances human performance in the aviation maintenance system to ensure continuing flight safety and operational efficiency. The research program, as reported in the Phase I report (Shepherd, Johnson, Drury, Taylor, & Berninger, 1991) ...

The operations of aircraft fleets typically result in large volumes of data collected during the execution of various operational and support processes. This paper reports on an Army-sponsored study conducted to research the applicability of data mining for processing such data. The study focused on three aspects: (1) understanding the aviation operations, maintenance environment, and data coll...

Foreign object damage (FOD) is common risk for aviation industry since long time ago and it has contributed to many terrible incidents and fatalities. The cost of FOD cases every year is very high, which is around RM 1.2 billion. Therefore, a proper technique and strategy has to be taken by the designated organizations including airlines to further eliminate the FOD occurrences. It is not easy ...

Today many aircraft control systems and process control industries are employing classical controller such as Proportional Integral Derivative Controller (PID) to improve the system characteristics and dynamic performance. To improve the stability analysis and system performance of an aircraft, PID controller is employed in this paper. The safety of flight envelope can be improved by tuning par...

This paper describes the implementation of the Wide Area Differential Global Positioning System (WADGPS) system in order to evaluate the operational performance of a satellite based aviation navigation system within Taipei Flight Information Region (FIR). The main objective of the WADGPS is to provide real time integrity information regarding the use of GPS for civil aviation applications. This...