an organization beyond rote subscription to an SMS. a truly safe operation is not defined simply by the presence of a safety management system (SMS). While an SMS is a good start, more is needed, much more. The International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO’s) decision to require aviation organizations to adopt SMSs has clearly focused attention on the concept of an SMS. However, a decision ...

Aircraft Engine Health Management Data Mining Tools is a project led by NASA Glenn Research Center in support of the NASA Aviation Safety Program's Aviation System Monitoring and Modeling Thrust. The objective of the Glenn-led effort is to develop enhanced aircraft engine health management prognostic and diagnostic methods through the application of data mining technologies to operational data ...

The role of computers in aviation is extensive and growing. Many crucial systems, both on board and on the ground, rely for their correct operation on sophisticated computer systems. This dependence is increasing as more and more functionality is implemented using computers and as entirely new systems are developed. Several new concepts are being developed specifically to address current safety...

The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) was used to classify maintenance-related general aviation accidents in the United States from 1990 to 2000 inclusive. The analysis revealed that among the maintainers, skill-based errors were most frequent cause of accidents, followed by violations committed by both professional maintainers and owneroperators. Furthermore, violations ...

Designing an emissions trading scheme requires in-depth knowledge about several aspects. This paper attempts to clarify some important design points of the forthcoming emissions trading scheme for aviation under the EU ETS. Five general key points of system design are acknowledged and comparisons are made to previous and current emission trading schemes. Above all, it is argued that initial all...

Facing with the enormous data scale of the civil aviation industry, the vital issue that enterprises must consider is how to manage and make use of data to play its value. In this study, the content of the governance of big data of civil aviation is analyzed and this paper put forward the specific governance of big data resources of civil aviation to provide relevant support of the governance o...

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