Research papers

Human Behavior During Spaceflight - Evidence From an Analog Environment

Spaceflight offers a multitude of stressors to humans living and working in space, originating from the external space environment and the life-support system.

A Meta-Analysis of Crew Resource Management/Incident Command Systems Implementation Studies in the Fire and Emergency Services

This research is a meta-analysis of studies on Crew Resource Management (CRM)/Incident Command System implementation in the fire and emergency services.

Tracks & Presenters

Situational Leadership Styles in United States Air Force Air Traffic Control Towers

Leadership in air traffic control facilities is critical to the safe, orderly, and efficient flow of air traffic. The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine the preferred leadership style for United States Ai…

An Inquiry into the Aviation Management Education Paradigm Shift

Working adults with four-year degrees from accredited colleges or universities earn, on average, almost three times more than individuals without a degree.

Achieving global range in future subsonic and supersonic airplanes

No commercial airplane in service today is able to fly half great-circle distances over the globe and achieve the non-stop or the global range to any antipodal location on Earth.

Reliability of Eyewitness Reports to a Major Aviation Accident

There is a paucity of studies on the reliability of eyewitness reports to aviation crashes. We examine witness statements to a widely observed major airline accident to determine if reported accident investigator distrus…

Aerodynamic Optimization of Box Wing – A Case Study

The optimization of a possible medium range box wing commercial airliner is presented in three stages. Preliminary research is used to determine various parameters for a potential box wing model, and a baseline model is …

Preferred Learning Mode, Instructor Competence and Tuition Reimbursement: What our Faculty and Students are Telling Us

This research examined comments in open response areas from 228 faculty and 659 student surveys regarding learning mode preference (classroom, online, video synchronous) instructor competence with technology and the impa…

Improving Airplane Touchdown Control by Utilizing the Adverse Elevator Effect

The main objective of this original research article is to understand the short-term dynamic behavior of the transport-category airplane during landing flare elevator control application.

Colgan Air Accident-Driven Changes to Part 121 Flight Operations: It is Time for Phase Two (Editorial)

It has been just one year since the FAA mandated a minimum of 1500 total flight hours for all part 121 pilots and the implementation of the corresponding 3-tier restricted ATP program based on reduced flight hours.

Measurable Outcomes of Safety Culture in Aviation - A Meta-Analytic Review

Though the complimentary concepts of safety culture and safety climate have become increasingly popular over the past three decades, they have only infrequently been central to research designed to examine the empirical …

Interactive 3-D Software in Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Training

As the nexus between aviation, fire science, and emergency management becomes increasingly more complex, technology can be used to augment training and avoid risk while maintaining authenticity with situational reality.

Kinematic Effects in Large Transport Aircraft

The control of an aircraft relies on sensory feedback. It follows that any aspect that could create a situation where that feedback is faulty can lead to unintended outcomes.

A Trustworthiness of Commercial Airline Pilots (T-CAP) Scale for Indian Consumers

A Trustworthiness of Commercial Airline Pilots (T-CAP) Scale was created for the purpose of measuring consumer perceptions about the trustworthiness of pilots in India.

A Review and History of the Air Traffic-Collegiate Training Initiative Program

Approximately seven years after the air traffic control strike in 1981, the FAA commissioned several studies to review the procedures that were used to train air traffic controllers.

A total-energy based model of airplane overspeed takeoffs

A novel total-energy model of overspeed takeoffs is introduced . The mathematical model is based on the 6-DOF rigid-body aircraft equations of motion during takeoff and initial unaccelerated climb.

Diesel engines for light-to-medium helicopters and airplanes (Editorial)

The purpose of this article is to investigate utilization of common-rail turbocharged diesel aero-engines as primary propulsion powerplant for light-to-medium helicopters and airplanes.

Aviation Managers’ Perspective on the Importance of Education

The U.S. Department of Labor reported that working adults with at least a four-year college degree earned an annual average salary of $63,400 compared to the $24,300 salary of high school graduates with no college.

Assessing Customer Service in Airports – Models from the UAE

Customer service at airports has become a key priority for airport operators given the high degree of competitions. This paper uses an airport customer service model to analyze three examples from the United Arab Emirate…

Effect of 406 MHz ELTs and COSPAS-SARSAT Cessation of 121.5 MHz ELT Monitoring on Search and Rescue Duration for General Aviation Aircraft Accidents in the Contiguous United States

Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs) are credited with saving hundreds of lives every year in the United States. Following an aircraft accident, these devices transmit an emergency beacon signal to the COSPAS-SARSAT sat…

Airline Quality Rating 2014

Take the 2014 Airline Passenger Survey Airline performance in 2013 was the highest since the Airline Quality Rating started in 1991. Of the 15 carriers rated for performance in both 2012 and 2013, eight airlines improved…

Consumer Perceptions of Starting Regional Pilot Pay Given Additional Qualifications

Public Law 111-216, passed in 2010, has drastically increased the required number of flight hours necessary to become a commercial airline pilot from 250 hours to 1,500 hours in the United States.

Evaluating Conflict between Employees: Exploring the Costs to an Organization

Conflicts between employees result in decreased job satisfaction, negative relationships within the organization, and a loss of employee commitment to both the organization and the specific job performed.

Passengers from India and the United States Have Differential Opinions about Autonomous Auto-Pilots for Commercial Flights

There has been much previous research on cultural differences between the United States and India, as well as some research on consumer attitudes towards auto-pilots in commercial airlines.

Aviation Consumers’ Trust in Pilots: A Cognitive or Emotional Function

Previous research has shown that stigmas play an important role in trust. While previous research has focused on trust in individuals with stigmas in various settings, no research that we know of has specifically looked …

SMS - Reaching beyond low hanging fruit

Human nature predisposes us to maximize our accomplishments while making a concerted effort to balance resource expenditures so we achieve an optimal return on our efforts.

FAA Safety Seminar (Open to the General Public)

This seminar will focus on reducing the aviation accident rate through the enhancement of safety culture. Human factors influences on accident and incidents will also be discussed with an emphasis on the prevention of fu…

Session H: Undergraduate student poster session

Session I: Discussion Forum

Air Transportation

Aircraft Icing Potential and Ice- and Mixed-phase Cloud Microphysics

AbstractCold cloud interactions with aircrafts that fly through them require knowledge of cloud microphysics. Aircrafts must be designed to fly into supercooled clouds, or they must avoid those clouds in order to prevent…

Angle of Attack Equipment in General Aviation Operations

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in conjunction with the general aviation (GA) industry formed the General Aviation Joint Steering Committee (GAJSC) with the goal to improve overall general aviation safety.

Off-Shore Helicopter Operations

This case study research project is based on a foreign oil company desiring to set up and provide helicopter transportation to and from oil rigs in the gulf.

Applications of Long-Wave Thermal Infrared Imagers on Unmanned Aerial Systems for First Responders

The Embry-Riddle Prescott UAS Team will design, build, and test three Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for competing in the student UAS Competition June 18 - 22 in Patuxent River, MD hosted by the Association for Unmanned V…

Flight Data Monitoring

Attitudes Toward the Practical Incorporation of Scenario Based Training (SBT) into a Commercial Pilot Training Syllabus: A Preliminary Study

As aviation moves into its second century, aircraft accidents still occur, though at a very low rate. With that said, the rate of pilot-related accidents in General Aviation (GA) has not decreased when compared against t…

Local Meteorological Modeling to Support Flight Training Operations

Spatial and temporal variability in atmospheric conditions directly impact pilot safety and training objectives. Specific conditions of frequent concern to the ERAU Prescott flight training operations include boundary la…

Improving Wingsuit Performance (proposed research)

Wingsuit flying is the newest skydiving discipline. Wingsuits have flying surfaces attached to the arms and legs of a skydiver that enable the skydiver to fly large horizontal distances with a very slow descent rate.

NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge

NASA's Great Moonbuggy Race, held annually in at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is an engineering design challenge that asks teams of student engineers to design a human-­‐powered vehicle capabl…

Session F: Topics in Commercial Aviation

1. Managing global risks through ambidexterity: Evidence of global players in the airline industry.2. Air quality: An emerging issue in the airport industry.3.

Session G: Unmanned Aircraft Systems III

1. The Arizona UAS research consortium.2. State and local legislation: More hurdles of UAS integration?3. Real Time Consulting.4. UAS privacy and security.5. UAS challenges, exploitation, and threats.

Air Quality: An Emerging Issue in the Airport Industry

Today one of the emerging issues in aviation is the assessment, control and reduction of air emissions. In particular airports are increasingly scrutinized for accountability of air emissions contributions to the local a…

State and Local Legislation: More Hurdles for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Integration?

Congressional mandate for the integration of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in the National Airspace System (NAS) to take place by 2015, significant interest in UAS investment, operations, and research has taken place Com…

Examining the Value of a Bachelor's Degree for Helicopter Pilots

Traditionally, a bachelor’s degree has never been a qualification requirement for entry-level helicopter pilots obtaining employment or for even becoming entirely successful helicopter pilots in the industry.As helicopte…

Aviation Safety and Security Archives

The Aviation Safety and Security Archives at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is an archival repository and technical library focusing on the work of individuals and organizations involved in the advancement of safet…

Robertson Safety Institute

As an exhibitor at the Air Conference, I had a display booth at the conference with displays telling what the Robertson Safety Institute is and our capabilities in the safety arena which includes academe, industry and go…

Session E: Poster Session (cash bar and hors d' oeuvres) Sponsored by ERAU Alumni Association

1. Analysis of data: Value of 4-year degree for helicopter pilots.2. An evaluation into pilot proficiency assessment and the current state of training in the industry.3.

Multidisciplinary Development of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Fleet

Eco-Dolphin – Cooperative Fleet for Surveillance Mission SIAM, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, members have been working for two years on the design, construction and testing of three highly integrated and …

An Evaluation into Pilot Proficiency Assessment and the Current State of Training in the Industry

Pilot proficiency assessment has been a debated topic, especially in recent years. Determining effective ways to assess proficiency has been the focus of many industries, including similar high-risk industries such as he…

Session D: Human Factors II

1. Evaluating conflict between employees: Exploring the costs to an organization.2. How consistent are aviation students when taking the private pilot knowledge exam?3.