This paper aims to find the relationship between flying technical skills and eye-movement indicators of pilots by researching the flying skills and eye-movement parameters in the initial training phase. The operation performance of pilots was considered as an indicator of the level of the pilots’ technical skills. The fixation count, the fixation duration, the saccade amplitude, the saccade ang...

In this study, pilots were asked to achieve a specific time in trail while flying an arrival into Louisville International airport. Weather shortly before the start of the descent added variability to the initial intervals. A spacing tool calculated airspeeds intended to achieve the desired time in trail at the final approach fix. Pilots were exposed to four experimental conditions which varied...

In this study, pilots were asked to achieve a specific time in trail while flying an arrival into Louisville International airport. Weather shortly before the start of the descent added variability to the initial intervals. A spacing tool calculated airspeeds intended to achieve the desired time in trail at the final approach fix. Pilots were exposed to four experimental conditions which varied...

This paper considers the use of implicit pilots for channel estimation in OFDM schemes (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) with transmit diversity. To cope with the interference levels between data and pilots, we propose an iterative receiver with joint detection and channel estimation. For the first iteration, the channels are estimated by averaging the received signal over several bl...

The aim of the collaborative European research project ‘Simulation of UPset Recovery in Aviation’ (SUPRA) is to develop breakthrough simulator technologies for teaching pilots to detect and recover from adverse flight upsets that could lead to unusual attitudes and lossof-control. In the project, the high-performance research simulator DESDEMONA is utilized, which integrates a flight simulator ...

Fifty-four licensed pilots carried out multiple surveillance missions on two high-fidelity simulations representing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In Experiment 1, pilots were required to operate a single UAV through three different mission conditions: a baseline condition, one that offloaded relevant information to the auditory channel, and one that provided automation of flight path control...

INTRODUCTION Age (due to declines in cognitive abilities necessary for navigation) and level of aviation expertise are two factors that may affect aviation performance and decision making under adverse weather conditions. We examined the roles of age, expertise, and their relationship on aviation decision making and flight control performance during a flight simulator task. METHODS Seventy-tw...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to examine pilots' automation monitoring strategies and performance on highly automated commercial flight decks. BACKGROUND A considerable body of research and operational experience has documented breakdowns in pilot-automation coordination on modern flight decks. These breakdowns are often considered symptoms of monitoring failures even though, to da...

This paper proposes one integer frequency offset estimation algorithm for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based digital radio mondiale (DRM) system. The algorithm exploits the correlation of frequency pilots to construct a novel angle vector. As the power factor of the pilots in the correlated calculation is inevitably disturbed by the multipath and noise, the angle vector onl...

This article describes the human factor analysis from flight trials performed in Reno, NV. Flight trials were conducted with a Cheyenne 1 from Marinvent. Thirteen pilots flew the Cheyenne in seventy-two approaches to the Reno airfield. All pilots flew completely randomized settings. Three different display configurations: • Elec. Flight Information System (EFIS), • EFIS and 2D moving map, and •...