A series of fatal commercial aviation accidents starting in the 1970s led to the identification of thunderstorm-related wind shear as a critical hazard to aircraft takeoffs and landings. In aggregate, these accidents resulted in over 400 fatalities and pressured the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop effective warning technologies. In response, the aviation community invested in a...

Aviation Medicine traces its roots to high altitude physiology more than 400 years ago. Since then, great strides have been made in this medical specialty, initially catalysed by the need to reduce pilot medical attrition during the World Wars, and more recently, fuelled by the explosive growth in globalised commercial air travel. This paper traces the historical milestones in Aviation Medicine...

The Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) is used to collect voluntarily submitted aviation safety reports from pilots, controllers and others. As such it is particularly useful in researching aviation safety deficiencies. In this paper we address two challenges related to the analysis of ASRS data: (1) the unsupervised extraction of meaningful and interpretable topics from ASRS reports and (...

Avoidable unscheduled maintenance events and unnecessary spare parts deliveries are mostly caused by an incorrect choice of the underlying maintenance strategy. For a faster and more efficient supply of spare parts for aircrafts of an airline we examine options for improving the underlying logistics network integrated in an existing aviation industry network. This paper presents a dynamic predi...

Culture is widely believed to play an important role in the international aviation system. Given the many factors, including the infrastructure of aviation, that affect aviation safety, the role of culture remains uncertain. It is accepted that culture must exert some influence on the patterns of behavior enacted by flight crews on the flight deck, but different views of culture produce differe...

Aviation is one of the critical modes of our national transportation system. As such it is essential that new technologies be continually developed to ensure that a safe mode of transportation becomes even safer in the future. Data analyses in aviation improve safety. Analyzed air crash details plays very important role to avoid further unforeseen accidents. Air crash details of data’s are clas...

The paper describes our attempt at mapping the complexity of the civil aviation system, in terms of how changes affect safety and interactions between actors within the system. Three cases were selected to represent three distinct levels of the transport system: the civil aviation authority case, the air traffic control/airport operation case and the maintenance case. Through the complexity per...

In 2001, the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center completed an evaluation of GPS vulnerabilities and the potential impacts to transportation systems in the United States. One of the recommendations of this study was for the operation of backup system(s) to GPS; Loran-C was identified as one possible backup system. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been leading a team consist...

The need for a 5-dimensional (5D) integrated database capability for aviation weather applications to reduce weather disruptions and increase the safety and efficiency of operations within the air and space transportation system has been articulated by the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO). JPDO is an interagency organization that is jointly managed by NASA and FAA. The implementatio...

The fact that it is possible to compile a list of 6,029 entries pertinent to such a new subject as Aviation Medicine reflects clearly the manner in which the problems presented to medical science by the demands of aviation cut across almost all lines of medical and biological science. The forces of destruction have, of course, but accentuated the need for an understanding of those problems of m...