The purpose of this paper is to describe the flight crew procedures for commercial jet instrument approaches in order to aid in the development of pilot computational models and for evaluation of new cockpit display technologies. New SVS displays were evaluated based on pilot performance and workload and were compared to a baseline (no SVS) displays. Both ILS and RNAV approaches were considered...

BACKGROUND Data on the incidence of in-flight medical emergencies on-board civil aircraft are uncommon and rarely published. Such data could provide information regarding required medical equipment on-board aircraft and requisite training for cabin crew. The aim of the present study was to gather data on the incidences, nature, and medical equipment for in-flight medical emergencies by way of a...

Energy requirements during space flight are poorly defined because they depend on metabolic-balance studies, food disappearance, and dietary records. Water turnover has been estimated by balance methods only. The purpose of this study was to determine energy requirements and water turnover for shortterm space flights (8-14 d). Subjects were 13 male astronauts aged 36-5 1 y with normal body mass...

In this paper we consider an important problem for the airline industry. The widely studied crew pairing problem is typically formulated as a set partitioning problem and solved using the branchand-price methodology. Here we develop a new integer programming framework, based on the concept of subsequence generation, for solving the set partitioning formulation. In subsequence generation one res...

The aviation domain provides a better analogy for the "temporary" teams that are found in acute medical specialities than industrial or military teamwork research based on established teams. Crew resource management (CRM) training, which emphasises portable skills (for whatever crew a pilot is rostered to on a given flight), has been recognised to have potential application in medicine, especia...

By mid 2002 crew time will become a precious resource on ISS. Especially EVA activities will be under pressure, requiring special training, preparation and post-sortie recovery. The key issue is a collection of human scale dexterous manipulation tasks, like handling MLI and connectors. A significant portion of these tasks is well-predictable and can be considered routine operations. But they ar...

In the fractional ownership model, the partial owner of an aircraft is entitled to certain flight hours per year, and the management company is responsible for all the operational considerations of the aircraft and for making an aircraft available to the owner at the requested time and place. In the recent years although the industry as a whole has experienced significant growth, most of the ma...

Safety attitude reflects employee beliefs and feelings about safety policies measures. attitudes have a significant influence on behaviour. Flight attendants play vital role in in-flight services. It is known that most fatal accidents involving commercial aircraft are caused by failures communication teamwork among flight attendants. This study aims to find out whether there differentiation bet...

INTRODUCTION In-flight medical emergencies on commercial aircraft are common in both domestic and international flights. We hypothesized that fourth-year medical students feel inadequately prepared to lend assistance during in-flight medical emergencies. This multicenter study of two U.S. medical schools obtains a baseline assessment of knowledge and confidence in managing in-flight medical eme...