CHATURVEDI AK, CRAFT KJ, CANFIELD DV, WHINNERY JE. Toxicological findings from 1587 civil aviation accident pilot fatalities, 1999–2003. Aviat Space Environ Med 2005; 76:1145–50. Introduction: The prevalence of drug and ethanol use in aviation is monitored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Under such monitoring, toxicological studies for the 1989–1993 and 1994–1998 periods indicated...

Pilot-job systems have emerged as a computation paradigm to cope with heterogeneity of production grids, greatly improving fault ratios and latency. Tools like DIANE, WISDOM-II, ToPoS and Condor glideIns are now being widely adopted to conduct large-scale experiments on such platforms. However, a model of pilot-job applications is still lacking, making it difficult to determine submission param...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether continually updated information about a system's confidence in its ability to perform assigned tasks improves operators' trust calibration in, and use of, an automated decision support system (DSS). BACKGROUND The introduction of decision aids often leads to performance breakdowns that are related to automation bias and trust miscalibration. This can be explained,...

INTRODUCTION Helicopter overland navigation is a cognitively complex task that requires continuous monitoring of system and environment parameters and years of training. This study investigated potential improvements to training simulation by analyzing the influences of flight expertise on visual scan patterns. METHODS There were 12 military officers who varied in flight expertise as defined ...

To meet the expected increases in air traffic demands, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are researching and developing Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) concepts. NextGen will require substantial increases to the data available to pilots on the flight deck (e.g., wake projections) to support more precise and...

Mid-air collisions are a concern for general aviation. Current traffic alerting systems have limited usability in the airport environment where a majority of mid-air collisions occur. A Traffic Situation Awareness with Alerting Application (TSAA) has been developed which uses Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B), a Global Positioning System (GPS) based surveillance system, to pr...

Identifying the essential characteristics and forecasting carbon prices is significant in promoting green transformation. This study transforms time series into networks based on China’s pilots by using visibility graph, mining more information structure features. Then, we calculate nodes’ similarity to forecast link prediction. To improve predicted accuracy, notice node distance introduce weig...

OBJECTIVES Intraindividual variability (IIV) is negatively associated with cognitive test performance and is positively associated with age and some neurological disorders. We aimed to extend these findings to a real-world task, flight simulator performance. We hypothesized that IIV predicts poorer initial flight performance and increased rate of decline in performance among middle-aged and old...