The Spacelab 1 mission, a joint venture of the European Space Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration took place during the period 28 November through 8 December 1983. An overview of the first flight of the orbiting laboratory is presented here. The payload crew members' view of Spacelab operations and results of the scientific investigations carried out on this mission are...

On a recent holiday, one of the authors was asked to lend medical assistance to a passenger on the flight out and another on the flight back. Anecdotally, it appears that other doctors are also being asked more often than previously. This led us to investigate the area more closely. About three quarters of in-flight emergencies are managed by cabin crew but in the remaining situations it is off...

Human factors and flight operations experts have been studying crew performance issues with commercial transport autoflight and FMS interfaces for more than 20 years. A group at Boeing, in response to this work, has developed a new autoflight/FMS mode set and new interface design. In this paper, we discuss the drivers for the project, our method for generating autoflight modes, and design princ...

The Synchronized Position Hold Engage Reorient Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) are an experimental testbed for guidance, navigation and control algorithms that has been operated, by astronauts, inside the crew volume of the International Space Station (ISS) since 2006. In October 2012, the MIT Space Systems Laboratory and Aurora Flight Sciences will launch a vision based navigation upgrade to...

Capt. Herbert Schwarz AICC chairman@aicc.org Abstract Learning management systems provide an indispensable basis for the manifold training requirements of flight crew, ground staff, engineering and maintenance personnel mandatory to the airline industry. Screening and deployment of such a system is a complex endeavor which is discussed against the background of specific requirements of the airl...

This paper describes how a set of off-the-shelf general purpose digital computers is being managed in a redundant avionic configuration while performing flight-critical functions for the Space Shuttle. The description covers the architecture of the redundant computer set, associated redundancy design requirements, and the technique used to detect a failed computer and to identify this failure o...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this analysis was to evaluate the use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) in air transit, and to understand potential problems created by this practice for flight crew and patrons. Safety concerns around the long-term effects of ecigarette use and passive inhalation in enclosed spaces are being studied, yet ecigarettes are increasingly being used in smoke-free pl...

Rostering is a crucial planning process in an airline’s overall scheduling hierarchy. Besides addressing the issues of crew utilisation and crew costs (which represent two of the major expenses in running an airline), a rostering tool must also cover the question of quality requirements. The quality of service can be improved by having the rostering tool take into consideration the skills of in...

The crew cost constitutes 20% of the direct operating in airline operations after aircraft fuel cost. Effective scheduling can save tens millions dollars to airlines and result low-cost flight tickets for passengers improved quality life crew. pairing requires addressing union expectations, company rules, regulations countries' civil aviation authorities. In this study, bi-objective goal progra...

In response to several influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 infections that developed in passengers after they traveled on the same 2 flights from New York, New York, USA, to Hong Kong, China, to Fuzhou, China, we assessed transmission of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus on these flights. We defined a case of infection as onset of fever and respiratory symptoms and detection of virus by PCR in a passenger or cre...