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5,896 papers · NASA NTRS, NTSB, FAA CAMI
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- Semantic Scholar 2006 Article (2006 ieee/aiaa 25TH Digital Avionics Systems Conference)
Runway Incursion Prevention for General Aviation Operations
- Semantic Scholar 2006 Article
Human Challenges in the Maintenance of Unmanned Aircraft Systems
The objective of this study was to identify human factors that will apply in the maintenance of UAV systems and identified issues and grouped them into four categories: hardware; software/documentation; personnel, and en…
- NTSB Safety Studies 2005 NTSB Safety study
Risk Factors Associated With Weather-Related General Aviation Accidents
Earlier edition of the recurring weather-GA-accidents study. Defines the baseline VFR-into-IMC accident rate and identifies pilot proficiency, weather information availability, and decision-making as core risk drivers.
- Semantic Scholar 2005 Article
STCA, TCAS, airproxes and collision risk
The focus here is on the performance of and interaction between the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) and the controller's short-term conflict alert (STCA) system.
- NASA NTRS 2005 GRC Abstract
MEA Failure Mechanisms in PEM Fuel Cells Operated on Hydrogen and Oxygen
Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells are candidates to replace alkaline fuel cells for space power programs. Broad power ranges, high peak to nominal power ratio, and low maintenance costs are the major advantag…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Industry report (AQRR)
Airline Quality Rating 2005
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.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Assessing the Effects of September 11 Events on Flight Training
On September 11, 2001 the U.S. and the World witnessed the atrocities that terrorists inflicted. These tragic events have changed the approach for aviation security planning, management and policy.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
The Effects of Air Traffic Control Privatization on Operating Cost and Flight Safety
The purpose of this study was to determine if privatization of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) System would cause a reduction in ATC operating cost and improve air traffic safety.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Airline Fuel Hedging: An Overview of Hedging Solutions Available to Airlines
Over the past several years airlines have been struggling to cope with a barrage of challenging economic conditions and have been very creative in reducing cost.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
The Editor's Forum
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
The Respectability of Collegiate Aviation as an Academic Discipline: Have We Arrived Yet?
With a growing popularity of new programs since the latter part of the 20th century, collegiate aviation has made significant gains in US colleges and universities particularly through University Aviation Association (UA…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
An Assessment of Intensive/Weekend Teaching Format of Aviation Education: A Case of Aviation Law
Although most universities in the United States (U.S.) have launched off-campus education for working adults, the quality of such an educational format remains skeptical to many educators who exchange knowledge mainly vi…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
An Approach to Determine the Need for Expanding Small Airports: A Case Study
Airports play an important role in the economic vitality of communities and surrounding areas. In developing and expanding an airport, there are many different variables that must be taken into account.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
A Step Toward Early PC-Based Training That Reduces Risk: The Effects of Practicing an “Instrument Referenced” Skill Pattern on “Visually Referenced” Performance of Beginning Flight Students
A matched pairs design was used to evaluate the effects of instrument referenced skill pattern practice on a Personal Computer-Based Aviation Training Device (PCATD) on beginning flight student performance in the field (…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Yield Management in the Airline Industry
"This is it! This is a shot across our bow! If we don't invent a way to deal with (yield management), we're history!" - Donald Burr, Former CEO of People's Express.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Application of Low Speed Wind Tunnels in Teaching Basic Aerodynamics
Undergraduate programs that include one or more courses on basic aerodynamics, including those that are introductory to undergraduate engineering programs, can benefit from the use of low speed wind tunnels.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Invasive Iguanas as Airstrike Hazards at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Green iguanas are large lizards exotic to Puerto Rico, but abundant around Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU) in metropolitan San Juan, where we assessed their potential as an airstrike hazard.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Editor's Forum
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
In Search of Collegiate Flight “Education”
"The goal of most college flight programs is not to produce general aviation pilots, but rather professional pilots who also attain AA/BS degree-related life skills," wrote one professor [emphases his].
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Lightning Strikes on Commercial Aircraft: How the Airlines Are Coping
The hazard posed by lightning strikes is an important issue in commercial aviation. Extensive research into methods for coping with lightning strikes has been continuing for many years.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Low-Level Windshear and Its Impact on Airlines
The hazards posed by low-level windshear are an important issue in commercial aviation. Extensive research into methods for coping with low-level windshear has been continuing for many years.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Farewell Comrade
The man in the coffin, the body in the coffin, was not he. For one thing, he needed a cigar. Those thin, colorless lips clamped tightly together would have told me he was dead even if all the other clues had been absent.…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2005 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Perceived Importance of the Visual Cues to the Timing of the Landing Flare
One of the first obstacles that confront student pilots is the landing flare. Of special concern is the initial decrease in rate of descent, also known as the leveloff.
- Semantic Scholar 2005 Article
1 FIPER : An Intelligent System for the Optimal Design of Highly Engineered Products
This paper outlines the development of an advanced design environment that invokes a new intelligent system paradigm for the design of highly engineered products and describes pilot projects at GE Aircraft Engines and th…
- NTSB Aircraft Accident Reports 2004 NTSB Accident report
In-Flight Separation of Vertical Stabilizer — American Airlines Flight 587
American Airlines 587 (A300-605R) Belle Harbor, NY, November 12, 2001 — 265 fatalities. Investigation of the post-takeoff in-flight breakup of American 587 over Belle Harbor.
- Semantic Scholar 2004 Article
Effect of aircraft self-merging in sequence on an airborne collision avoidance system
- Semantic Scholar 2004 Article
Culture, threat, and error: lessons from aviation
There are similarities in the ongoing struggle for safety in both healthcare and aviation, although safety is the primary goal, cost drives decisions and there are multiple sources of threats toSafety in both systems – t…
- Semantic Scholar 2004 Article (Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine)
Human factors in maintenance: impact on aircraft mishap frequency and severity.
Emphasis in training and education placed in the first three factors mentioned may reduce overall number of mishaps, and Concentrating resources on the final five factors may decrease the number of severe mishaps.
- NASA NTRS 2004 LaRC Conference Paper
Cockpit System Situational Awareness Modeling Tool
This project explored the possibility of predicting pilot situational awareness (SA) using human performance modeling techniques for the purpose of evaluating developing cockpit systems.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2004 ERAU Industry report (AQRR)
Airline Quality Rating 2004
The Airline Quality Rating (AQR) was developed and first announced in early 1991 as an objective method of comparing airline quality on combined multiple performance criteria.
- arXiv 2004 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Effective viscosity of grease ice in linearized gravity waves
Grease ice is an agglomeration of disc-shaped ice crystals, named frazil ice, which forms in turbulent waters of the Polar Oceans and in rivers as well.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2004 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2004 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Adaption and Innovation in Flight Training - The Benefits of Cognitive Diversity
This article highlights how differences in cognitive style paradigms, according to Adaption-Innovation (A-I) Theory, can have a positive impact in a flight training environment.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2004 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Back Matter
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2004 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Editor's Forum
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2004 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
The Most Valuable Aspects of an Airline Flight Operations Internship: The Perceptions of Former Interns
A large number of collegiate Aviation institutions throughout the United States maintain an airline flight operations internship program.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2004 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Aeromedical Issues in Diabetic Aviators
Diabetes mellitus is a common disease that poses a serious health and safety threat to civilian aviators. Complications secondary to diabetes can be severe and result in sudden incapacitation.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2004 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2004 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
An Overview of the Demise of NASA’s High Speed Research Program
In February 1998 NASA's High Speed Research Program (HSR) was cancelled without fan fare or press announcement. The principal effect of this announcement was to immediately end the research and development that was in pr…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2004 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Libelle Self-Contained Anti-G Ensemble: Overcoming Negative Transfer
G-suits have changed over the years since Dr. Wilbur Franks invented the first anti-g suit. For the past decade the United States Air Force has been using the Combat Edge ensemble and the associated L-1 straining maneuve…