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Predictive Power of English Testing: Training International Flight Students

Due to the impending pilot shortage in Asian countries many prospective students are being sent to the United States to receive their initial flight training.

The Future of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Pilot Qualification

One of the major issues facing Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) integration into the National Airspace System (NAS) is pilot qualification.

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Welcome to another issue of the JAAER. We are pleased to share three exciting articles with you. Our first article addresses an interesting issue: what effect do certain variables have on how employees respond to trainin…

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The Wright Lawsuit

While the flights of the Wright brothers over a century ago have enshrined their names in aeronautical history, only slightly less important are the lawsuits brought forth by the brothers in defense of their invention.

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Predicting Impact of Maintenance Resource Management Training Utilizing Individual Difference Variables

Human error has been identified as a leading cause of accidents and incidents in many "high-consequence" industries, such as aviation and medicine.

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Measuring Demand for Access to Regional Airports: An Application of Zero-Inflated Poisson Regression

The demand for access to regional airports is measured by the counts of area navigation (RNA V)/required navigation (RNP) procedures filed in the flight plan and collected by the Federal Aviation Administration's host co…

Contrasting safety assessments of a runway incursion scenario: Event sequence analysis versus multi-agent dynamic risk modelling

This study contrasts two approaches to assess accident risk of an example safety critical sociotechnical system by comparing an event sequence based assessment with a multi-agent dynamic risk model (MA-DRM) based assessm…

Electric Power System of Tu-154M Passenger Aircraft

Individual Pilot Factors Predict Simulated Runway Incursion Outcomes

A mathematical model of sap exudation in maple trees governed by ice melting, gas dissolution and osmosis

We develop a mathematical model for sap exudation in a maple tree that is based on a purely physical mechanism for internal pressure generation in trees in the leafless state.

Zonal flow regimes in rotating anelastic spherical shells: an application to giant planets

The surface zonal winds observed in the giant planets form a complex jet pattern with alternating prograde and retrograde direction. While the main equatorial band is prograde on the gas giants, both ice giants have a pr…

Learning Monocular Reactive UAV Control in Cluttered Natural Environments

Autonomous navigation for large Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is fairly straight-forward, as expensive sensors and monitoring devices can be employed.

Entangled in the womb? A pilot study on the possible physiological connectedness between identical twins with different embryonic backgrounds.

It is argued that the applied methodology for "hit" identification is objective and recommendable and embryonic history might be further investigated as a potential factor for connectedness between monozygotic twins.

Helicopter Pilot Workload and Operator Fatigue in MEDEVAC Missions

USAARL field study of MEDEVAC helicopter pilot workload + fatigue. Drove implementation of crew-rest enhancements + adoption of dual-pilot operations in high-tempo OEF/OIF MEDEVAC units.

Workload Management in General Aviation Cockpits

Eye-tracking and physiological-workload measurement during simulated GA scenarios. Compares workload signatures across glass-cockpit and steam-gauge configurations, with implications for flight-instructor training and pr…

Runway Incursion Severity Risk Analysis

Pilot’s Information Use During TCAS Events, and Relationship to Compliance to TCAS Resolution Advisories

Two analyses of the pilots’ use of information within their environment are discussed, using data from an eye tracker to identify when the pilot examined the traffic situation display provided by TCAS and compared with p…

Use of Personal Portable Electronic Devices by Flightcrew Members

Examines the use of personal portable electronic devices (PEDs) by flightcrew during operations and the distractions or sterile-cockpit violations they create.

Evaluation of the risk frequency for hazards of runway incursion in Korea

The analysis results verified the close relation of runway incursion with human error and the risk frequency of hazards related to airport runway incursions.

Safety Talk and Service Culture: Flight Attendant Discourse in Commercial Aviation.

Runway incursion prevention systems: A review of runway incursion avoidance and alerting system approaches

A review of currently deployed technological responses and those currently under development to runway incursions, including results of currently developed runway incursion prevention systems and the performance of the s…

Airline Quality Rating 2012

The Airline Quality Rating (AQR) was developed and first announced in early 1991 as an objective method for assessing airline quality on combined multiple performance criteria.

On-Board Visual Tracking with Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)

This paper presents the development of a real time tracking algorithm that runs on a 1.2 GHz PC/104 computer on-board a small UAV. The algorithm uses zero mean normalized cross correlation to detect and locate an object …

Investigating the investigations: a retrospective study in the aviation maintenance error causation

The impact of human reliability on aviation maintenance safety is investigated to explore the actual mechanisms of maintenance errors initialization and propagation and hence to identify requisite characteristics for fut…

The Critical Richardson Number and Limits of Applicability of Local Similarity Theory in the Stable Boundary Layer

Measurements of atmospheric turbulence made over the Arctic pack ice during the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean experiment (SHEBA) are used to determine the limits of applicability of Monin-Obukhov similarity the…

Control of Towing Kites for Seagoing Vessels

In this paper we present the basic features of the flight control of the SkySails towing kite system. After introduction of coordinate definitions and basic system dynamics we introduce a novel model used for controller …

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Not Just a Student Problem: Plagiarism in Aviation Academic Research

Plagiarism has long been a concern for educators. However, research literature has indicated that faculty and researchers have themselves conducted plagiarism at alarming rates.

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The Certainty of Uncertainty: Understanding and Exploiting Probability-Based Aviation Weather Products

Probability-based weather forecasts (i.e., forecasts that quantify uncertainty) have been available for certain weather elements for over 40 years; for example, the probability of precipitation forecast.

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The Evolution of the ATC Selection and Training Process

This paper explores the history of the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) selection and training process, showing how the process has evolved in an attempt to select a highly qualified and diverse controller workforce.

Mixed Methods Study of Demand Determinants of Airline Coach and Saddle Seats

The SkyRider seat was presented in September 2010 at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in California as a potential strategy to decrease space between seat rows and increase the revenue generating capacity of an airline.

Prepped for Departure: Sources of Information for Aviators

While some may joke the only information a pilot needs to know is which way is up and which way is down, the information needs of the aviator are easily equal to the most advanced scholar, doctor, or lawyer.

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Hybrid Courses in Aeronautical Science Curriculums

This article focuses on the need to address learning styles of NetGeners with an emphasis on aviation students. A brief history of aviation training generations as posited by Kearns (2010) is reviewed after which the aut…

The Wright Brothers vs. the World: Understanding the Wright Patent Wars

The Wright brothers' long and expensive legal defense of their patent was understandable, but damaging to both the brothers and the fledgling American aviation industry.

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The Wright Brothers’ Patent Lawsuits

The Wright Brothers pioneered the first sustained, powered, heavier than air, manned flight on December 17, 1903 (Garber, 1978). Some say that the Wrights' invention and innovation brought the "aerial age" into being (Do…

Collegiate Professional Pilot Programs: Acquisition and Use of a Level Six Training Device in the Academic Environment

Regardless of the bill of H. R. 5900 Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Act of 201 0 aiming to elevate the flight hours and level of certification for pilots working for FAA FAR 121 air carriers, the ongo…

Flying in the 1920s

Ninety years ago, America was a very different place, but still similar to the America of today in many ways. Immediately following World War I, a large number of veterans returned from overseas unable to find suitable w…

Analysis of General Aviation Instructional Loss of Control Accidents

Although student pilots spend many hours practicing maneuvers to improve airmanship and prevent accidents, almost one half of all general aviation aircraft accidents occur during flight training.

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