Preface This example application has been prepared by Airbus in conjunction with the Global Aviation Information Network (GAIN) Working Group B (Analytical Methods and Tools) (WGB) as one of a number of such examples of the use of analytical methods and tools described in the " Guide to Methods & Tools for Airline Flight Safety Analysis ". The intent of these example applications is to illustra...

INTRODUCTION Radiation doses received onboard aircraft are monitored in Europe to protect aircrew in accordance with a European Union directive. The French Aviation Authorities have developed a system called SIEVERT, using calculation codes to monitor effective radiation doses. METHODS For the galactic cosmic ray component, a 3-D world map of effective dose rates is computed using available o...

ion, thereby establishing situation-relevant “objects” which help to understand what is different Figure 3: The Cognitive Loop [6] between the expected and actual situation. These differences are dealt with in a higher level of abstraction by the so-called situation diagnosis process. The differences are evaluated against given objectives, the relevant goals, which are known to be pursued durin...

Following the ICRP’s 1990 recommendations for radiological protection practices to include workers exposed to elevated levels of radiation from natural sources, the occupational exposure of aircrew increasingly drew the attention of scientific groups from around the world. This particular study began in 1999 and, to date, has performed TEPC measurements on over two hundred commercial flights tr...

Robust flight decks are possible in both normal and novel operations. Existing crew resource and error management programs can improve team-centered resilience with Oshry’s organization development (OD) principles. The need on the flight deck is to diminish the invisible behavioral gap between espoused theory and theory-in-use by balancing Oshry’s four basic elements that make up robust human s...

Aircrew were studied before and after flying one of two routes: San Francisco (SFO) to London (LHR) or SFO to Tokyo (NRT). After an adaptation night, sleep and daytime sleepiness were objectively measured in SFO and during the first layover (L/O) of the target trip. Baseline sleep was slightly shorter than normally reported for similar age subjects and, for several reasons, is not an ideal basi...