Pilots are front-line operators in a system, civil aviation, which is inherently risky. For good reasons, much effort has been devoted to the tasks of creating objective measures of risk and of devising systems of risk management in aviation as well as other process industries. It is commonly assumed that risk perception and risk management are elements of pilot decision making. But what do we ...

There have been a number of medical cases of malpractice at the Musashino Red Cross Hospital. In 1995, we established a “Medical Practice Evaluation Committee” consisting of 11 doctors to review incident reports submitted by doctors describing their mistakes to resolve their own problems with reference to risk management systems in the field of aviation. I discuss the challenges faced by the Mu...

This paper describes the need for, and the development of, an avionics device to provide cockpit display of proximate traffic. The device is targeted at general aviation (GA), and is designed to address the needs of this unique market; namely pilot utility and low cost. Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS) are currently in use by the commercial airlines and are being installed b...

This chapter describes potential roles of trust in future aviation information systems. The next-generation air transportation systems are envisioned to be a highly networked environment with aircraft digitally linked with ground systems and wireless technologies allowing real-time continuous sensing, collection and distribution of aircraft information assets. The resulting enhancements promise...

As a measure to manage the climate impact of aviation, significant enhancements to aviation technologies and operations are necessary. When assessing these enhancements and their respective impacts on the climate, it is important that we also quantify the associated uncertainties—this is important to support an effective decision and policy making process. However, such quantification of uncert...

Distance measuring equipment (DME) and its military counterpart tactical air navigation (TACAN) has been a cornerstone of aviation navigation since its development in the 1950s. It is still one of the most commonly used aviation navigation aid. However, future airspace will need to accommodate increased traffic levels, more precise operations and autonomous air vehicles which will increase dema...

Bayesian Networks (BNs) are widely used for knowledge representation and probabilistic inference in stochastic domains. An attempt is made in the risk modeling context to develop a general Aviation System Risk Model (ASRM) [16]. Following this initial ASRM, an operational/maintenance ASRM prototype is developed that is based on real case studies [17]. Past and current research efforts focus on ...

The world-wide civilian aviation system is one of the most complex dynamical systems ever created. Most modern commercial aircraft have onboard flight data recorders (FDR) that record several hundred discrete and continuous parameters at approximately 1 Hz for the entire duration of the flight. This data contains information about the flight control systems, actuators, engines, landing gear, av...

s of Papers from Scientific Program Aerospace Medical Association 34th Annual Meeting, April 29-May 2, 1963 Statler Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California Lunar Landing Vehicle Helicopter Landing Simulation Study. C. R. ADAMS, M.S., Human Factors Analyst, Chance Vought Corporation, Astronautics Division of Ling-Temco-Vought, inc., Dallas, Texas. This paper covers a helicopter lunar landing simul...