The two official sources for aviation weather reports both require the pilot to mentally visualize the provided information. In contrast, our system, Aviation Weather Environment (AWE) presents aviation specific weather available to pilots in an easy to visualize form. We start with a computer-generated textual briefing for a specific area. We map this briefing onto a grid specific to the pilot...

This paper presents some research issues relevant to the datalink problem in aviation. It focuses on agents and cognitive functions as cognitive tools to represent and investigate communication issues in aviation. Cooperative work within the aviation system is analyzed using an agent-oriented methodology. Consequently, a method for humancentered automation is proposed. The main issue developed ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Human Factors Team − Atlantic City conducted a usability assessment of the www.fly.faa.gov Web site to examine user satisfaction and identify site usability issues. The FAA Air Traffic Control System Command Center uses this Web site to provide information about airport conditions, such as arrival and departure delays, to the public and the aviation ind...

Human error has been implicated in 70 to 80% of all civil and military aviation accidents. Yet, most accident reporting systems are not designed around any theoretical framework of human error. As a result, most accident databases are not conducive to a traditional human error analysis, making the identification of intervention strategies onerous. What is required is a general human error frame...

Purpose: Commercial aviation is feasible thanks to the complex socio-technical air transportation system, which involves interactions between human operators, technical systems, and procedures. In view of the expected growth in commercial aviation, significant changes in this socio-technical system are in development both in the USA and Europe. Such a complex socio-technical system may generate...

An aircraft (manned aircraft) may enter safely and legally into the US National Airspace System if and only if it has an airworthiness certificate complying with Federal Aviation Administration requirements. Although corresponding requirements, procedures and regulations for unmanned aircraft are in early development stages, they are expected to be similar to those set for manned aviation. This...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to extend previous examinations of aviation accidents to include specific aircrew, environmental, supervisory, and organizational factors associated with two types of commercial aviation (air carrier and commuter/ on-demand) accidents using the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS). BACKGROUND HFACS is a theoretically based tool for inves...

This paper presents a regulatory-based system-level approach to analyze the safety impact of introducing a new technology, such as unmanned aircraft systems, into the National Airspace System (NAS). The proposed framework applies the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) sanctioned safety management system (SMS) principles with a particular focus on safety risk management (SRM) and s...