This study compared situation awareness across three flight deck decision aiding modes. Pilots resolved air traffic conflicts using a click and drag software tool. In the automated aiding condition, pilots executed all resolutions generated by the automation. In the interactive condition, automation suggested a maneuver, but pilots had the choice of accepting or modifying the provided resolutio...

Prevalence of drugs in fatally injured obese pilots involved in aviation accidents has not been evaluated. Therefore, toxicological findings in such pilots (body mass index ≥30 kg/m(2) ) were examined in a data set derived from the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute's (CAMI's) Scientific Information System for 1990-2005. Aeromedical histories of these aviators were retrieved from the CAMI medica...

Situational awareness can be a valuable indicator of the performance of flight crews and the way pilots manage navigation information can be relevant to its estimation. In this research, dynamic Bayesian networks are applied to a dataset of variables both collected in real time during simulated flights and added with expert knowledge. This paper compares different approaches to the discretizati...

The work presented in this proposal analyze the performance of an OFDM system when conventional bidimensional (time-frequency) pilots locations are used, with a new algorithm that seeks the most appropriate time-frequency position within the OFDM-frame in an adaptive way, based on the variability of the frequency Doppler and the power delay of the channel during the communication.

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 ...

Introduction: Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) continues to be the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries. It is of particular concern in the aviation industry since it can result in sudden incapacitation. Moreover, it is the leading cause of pilot grounding. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of modifiable CAD risk factors among Gulf air pilots in Bahra...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to test whether inattentional deafness to critical alarms would be observed in a simulated cockpit. BACKGROUND The inability of pilots to detect unexpected changes in their auditory environment (e.g., alarms) is a major safety problem in aeronautics. In aviation, the lack of response to alarms is usually not attributed to attentional limitations, but rather...

Background The 2015 Germanwings Flight 9525 disaster, in which 150 people were killed after the co-pilot may have intentionally crashed the plane in a suicide attempt, highlights the importance of better understanding the mental health of commercial airline pilots. However, there have been few systematic reviews investigating the topic of mental health in commercial aviation. This systematic re...

Remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), also known as drones, have been used extensively in the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although RPA pilots in the U.S. Air Force (USAF) have reported high levels of stress and fatigue, rates of mental health (MH) diagnoses and counseling in this population are unknown. We calculated incidence rates of 12 specific MH outcomes among all active component...