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- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Runway Incursion Prevention System Simulation Evaluation
A Runway Incursion Prevention System (RIPS) was evaluated in a full mission simulation study at the NASA Langley Research center in March 2002.
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Runway Incursion Prevention System Testing at the Wallops Flight Facility
A Runway Incursion Prevention System (RIPS) integrated with a Synthetic Vision System concept (SVS) was tested at the Reno/Tahoe International Airport (RNO) and Wallops Flight Facility (WAL) in the summer of 2004.
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
Runway Incursion Prevention: A Technology Solution
A runway incursion occurs any time an airplane, vehicle, person or object on the ground creates a collision hazard with an airplane that is taking off or landing at an airport under the supervision of Air Traffic Control…
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
Development of a Bayesian Belief Network Runway Incursion and Excursion Model
In a previous work, a statistical analysis of runway incursion (RI) event data was conducted to ascertain the relevance of this data to the top ten Technical Challenges (TC) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administ…
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
Modeling Increased Complexity and the Reliance on Automation: FLightdeck Automation Problems (FLAP) Model
This paper highlights the development of a model that is focused on the safety issue of increasing complexity and reliance on automation systems in transport category aircraft.
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
Uncertainty Analysis for the Evaluation of a Passive Runway Arresting System
This paper considers the stopping distance of an aircraft involved in a runway overrun incident when the runway has been provided with an extension comprised of a material engineered to induce high levels of rolling fric…
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
Wake Turbulence Mitigation for Arrivals (WTMA)
The preliminary Wake Turbulence Mitigation for Arrivals (WTMA) concept of operations is described in this paper. The WTMA concept provides further detail to work initiated by the Wake Vortex Avoidance System Concept Eval…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Criteria Relating Wake Vortex Encounter Hazard to Aircraft Response
Piloted six-degree-of-freedom motion simulator investigations were conducted at the NASA Ames Research Center to determine criteria relating the hazard posed by a wake vortex encounter to the response of the encountering…
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Terrain Portrayal for Head-Down Displays Flight Test
The Synthetic Vision Systems General Aviation (SVS-GA) element of NASA's Aviation Safety Program is developing technology to eliminate low visibility induced General Aviation (GA) accidents through the application of syn…
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Synthetic Vision CFIT Experiments for GA and Commercial Aircraft: "A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Lives"
Because restricted visibility has been implicated in the majority of commercial and general aviation accidents, solutions will need to focus on how to enhance safety during instrument meteorological conditions (IMC).
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Other
Synthetic Vision Enhanced Surface Operations and Flight Procedures Rehearsal Tool
Limited visibility has been cited as predominant causal factor for both Controlled-Flight-Into-Terrain (CFIT) and runway incursion accidents.
- NASA NTRS 2019 AFRC Conference Paper
Aircraft Loss of Control Study
Loss of control has become the leading cause of jet fatalities worldwide. Aside from their frequency of occurrence, accidents resulting from loss of aircraft control seize the public s attention by yielding large numbers…
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
Aircraft Loss-of-Control Accident Analysis
Loss of control remains one of the largest contributors to fatal aircraft accidents worldwide. Aircraft loss-of-control accidents are complex in that they can result from numerous causal and contributing factors acting a…
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Other
Aircraft Accident Prevention: Loss-of-Control Analysis
The majority of fatal aircraft accidents are associated with loss-of-control . Yet the notion of loss-of-control is not well-defined in terms suitable for rigorous control systems analysis.
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Presentation
CAST Safety Enhancement Research on Airplane State Awareness and Prediction Technologies
Loss of control in flight (LOC-I) is the leading cause of fatal aircraft accidents. A study of LOC accidents and incidents, commissioned by the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) identified a growing trend in loss of…
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
Design Considerations for Attitude State Awareness and Prevention of Entry into Unusual Attitudes
Loss of control - inflight (LOC-I) has historically represented the largest category of commercial aviation fatal accidents. A review of the worldwide transport airplane accidents (2001-2010) evinced that loss of attitud…
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
Analyzing a Mid-Air Collision Over the Hudson River
On August 8, 2009, a private airplane collided with a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River near Hoboken, New Jersey. All three people aboard the airplane, the pilot and two passengers, and all six people aboard t…
- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Technical Memorandum (TM)
NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System
A comprehensive study of near midair collisions in terminal airspace, derived from the ASRS database is presented. A selection of controller and pilot reports on airport perimeter security, unauthorized takeoffs and land…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Conference Paper
Development of Possible Go-Around Criteria for Transport Aircraft
This paper adds data to help with the development of possible go-around criteria for transport category aircraft. Presently, airline procedures state that pilots make a go-around decision using multiple criteria at 1000 …
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Presentation
Stabilized Approach Criteria: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
Approach and landing is the most common phase of flight for aviation accidents, accounting annually for approximately 65 percent of all accidents.
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
Enhanced/Synthetic Vision and Head-Worn Display Technologies for Terminal Maneuvering Area NextGen Operations
NASA is researching innovative technologies for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) to provide a "Better-Than-Visual" (BTV) capability as adjunct to "Equivalent Visual Operations" (EVO); that is, airp…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Presentation
TCAS Alerts from Simulated Urban Air Mobility Flights Along FAA Helicopter Routes in Dallas-Fort Worth
This is a presentation of the current state of a TCAS study being conducted by the ATM-X project. This study examines the rate at which an urban air mobility vehicle flying along existing helicopter routes near DFW will …
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
A TCAS-II Resolution Advisory Detection Algorithm
The Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) is a family of airborne systems designed to reduce the risk of mid-air collisions between aircraft.
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Conference Paper
The Emergency Landing Planner Experiment
In previous work, we described an Emergency Landing Planner (ELP) designed to assist pilots in choosing the best emergency landing site when damage or failures occur in an aircraft.
- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Conference Paper
Windshear detection and avoidance - Airborne systems survey
Functional requirements for airborne windshear detection and warning systems are discussed in terms of the threat posed to civil aircraft operations.
- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Conference Paper
Airborne Doppler radar detection of low altitude windshear
As part of an integrated windshear program, the Federal Aviation Administration, jointly with NASA, is sponsoring a research effort to develop airborne sensor technology for the detection of low altitude windshear during…
- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Technical Memorandum (TM)
Thunderstorm hazards flight research: Storm hazards 1980 overview
A highly instrumented NASA F-106B aircraft, modified for the storm hazards mission and protected against direct lightning strikes, was used in conjunction with various ground based radar and lightning measurement systems…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Estimation of Reduction in Airspace Capacity Due to Convective Weather
Severe convective weather routinely disrupts normal flow of air traffic in the United States' National Airspace System (NAS). Over the last decade, severe weather has been the most significant cause, accounting for over …
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Conference Paper
Pilot Convective Weather Decision Making in En Route Airspace
The present research investigates characteristics exhibited in pilot convective weather decision making in en route airspace. In a part-task study, pilots performed weather avoidance under various encounter scenarios.
- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Conference Proceedings
Pilot Fatigue and Circadian Desynchronosis
Pilot fatigue and circadian desynchronosis, its significance to air transport safety, and research approaches, were examined. There is a need for better data on sleep, activity, and other pertinent factors from pilots fl…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Other
Validating and Verifying Biomathematical Models of Human Fatigue
Airline pilots experience acute and chronic sleep deprivation, sleep inertia, and circadian desynchrony due to the need to schedule flight operations around the clock.
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Presentation
Validation of Fatigue Modeling Predictions in Aviation Operations
Bio-mathematical fatigue models that predict levels of alertness and performance are one potential tool for use within integrated fatigue risk management approaches.
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Conference Paper
Linking the Pilot Structural Model and Pilot Workload
Behavioral models are developed that closely reproduced pulsive control response of two pilots using markedly different control techniques while conducting a tracking task.
- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Conference Proceedings
Human Factors of Flight-deck Automation: NASA/Industry Workshop
The scope of automation, the benefits of automation, and automation-induced problems were discussed at a workshop held to determine whether those functions previously performed manually on the flight deck of commercial a…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Conference Paper
Some Challenges in the Design of Human-Automation Interaction for Safety-Critical Systems
Increasing amounts of automation are being introduced to safety-critical domains. While the introduction of automation has led to an overall increase in reliability and improved safety, it has also introduced a class of …
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Conference Paper
Crew Resource Management for Automated Teammates (CRM-A)
Crew Resource Management (CRM) is the application of human factors knowledge and skills to ensure that teams make effective use of all resources.
- NASA NTRS 2019 KSC Presentation
Stay Alive--Simulation for Situational Safety Awareness
STAY ALIVE is an idea for a safety awareness simulation prototype, powered by gaming technology, that would make safety training enlightening, engaging and fun.
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
Prediction of Cognitive States During Flight Simulation Using Multimodal Psychophysiological Sensing
The Commercial Aviation Safety Team found the majority of recent international commercial aviation accidents attributable to loss of control inflight involved flight crew loss of airplane state awareness (ASA), and distr…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Conference Paper
Simulation System Fidelity Assessment at the Vertical Motion Simulator
Fidelity is a word that is often used but rarely understood when talking about groundbased simulation. Assessing the cueing fidelity of a ground based flight simulator requires a comparison to actual flight data either d…
- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Conference Proceedings
Guidelines for line-oriented flight training, volume 2
Current approaches to line-oriented flight training used by six American airlines are described. This recurrent training methodology makes use of a full-crew and full-mission simulation to teach and assess resource manag…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Presentation
Envelope Protection and Recovery Guidance for Upset Conditions
The slides are an overview and summary of past and current research projects in the field of envelope protection, upset prevention and upset recovery, with the aim to avoid loss of control accidents and improve safety in…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Contractor Report (CR)
Airplane Upset Training Evaluation Report
Airplane upset accidents are a leading factor in hull losses and fatalities. This study compared five types of airplane-upset training.
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
Collision Avoidance for Airport Traffic Simulation Evaluation
A Collision Avoidance for Airport Traffic (CAAT) concept for the airport Terminal Maneuvering Area (TMA) was evaluated in a simulation study at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Ce…
- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Conference Paper
Who or what saved the day? A comparison of traditional and glass cockpits
This study examined incidents reported to NASAs Aviation Safety Reporting System from a different perspective: rather than focusing on the factors contributing to or causing incidents, this study concentrated on who and …
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Presentation
Workload and Performance in Air Traffic Control: Exploring the Influence of Levels of Automation and Variation in Task Demand
In air traffic control, task demand and workload have important implications for the safety and efficiency of air traffic. Task demand is dynamic, however, research on demand transitions and associated controller percept…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Conference Paper
Prediction of Traffic Complexity and Controller Workload in Mixed Equipage NextGen Environments
Controller workload is a key factor in limiting en route air traffic capacity. Past efforts to quantify and predict workload have resulted in identifying objective metrics that correlate well with subjective workload rat…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Conference Paper
The Relationship Between Workload and Performance in Air Traffic Control: Exploring the Influence of Levels of Automation and Variation in Task Demand
In an air traffic environment, task demand is dynamic. However, previous research has largely considered the association of task demand and controller performance using conditions of stable task demand.
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
Surveillance Range and Interference Impacts on Self-Separation Performance
Self-separation is a concept of flight operations that aims to provide user benefits and increase airspace capacity by transferring traffic separation responsibility from ground-based controllers to the flight crew.
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Conference Paper
An Evaluation Methodology for Traffic Awareness Displays
An evaluation methodology for traffic awareness displays for helicopters and other vertical/short takeoff aircraft was developed. Pilots of vertical/short takeoff aircraft wil1 require more traffic information than would…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Conference Paper
Measurement of Temporal Awareness in Air Traffic Control
Temporal awareness, or level 3 situation awareness, is critical to successful control of air traffic, yet the construct remains ill-defined and difficult to measure.