Aviation research, sourced & cited.

Smoke, fire, and fumes without the smoke and fire: An emergency checklist for fumes

According to a published review of online fume event databases, U.S. airlines report an average of 5.3 oil/hydraulic fluid fume events per day.

Predicting Expect Departure Clearance Times Based on Surface Weather Observations for a Major Hub Airport: A Machine Learning Approach

Commercial air travel in the United States has grown significantly in the past decade. While the reasons for air traffic delays can vary, weather is the largest cause of flight cancellations and delays in the United Stat…

Utilizing Deep Learning to Predict Unstabilized Approaches for General Aviation Aircraft

Unstabilized approaches pose a major hazard for general aviation aircraft. In the period from 2009 to 2019, 3,257 general aviation accidents occurred during the landing phase of flight in which loss of control was analyz…

How Partnering with the Humanities Can Produce a More Prepared Aviation Workforce

This presentation will examine the Humanistic STEM (H-STEM) initiative at Embry-Riddle. The goal of H-STEM is to create a transferable model that blends humanities and STEM, showing connections between these disparate fi…

Diversity, Equity, Including, and Belonging: an Additional Pillar in a Flight Training Safety Management System

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB), critical to creating an academic environment supportive and welcoming to all students, have additional value to the safe and effective operations of flight training org…

Weather simulation for human-in-the-loop and robotic vehicle training: A literature review and new modeling approach

For decades preceding the advent of “metaverse” becoming a household term, simulation developers and researchers have continued to narrow the gap between digital twins and the high-risk work domains that they replicate.

Air Carrier Pilot Training, Supply & Recruitment Challenges

The route to airline recovery following the global COVID-19 pandemic is flush with opportunity for airlines, unions, and regulators to work together within current regulatory structures to recruit the next generation of …

Creating an Urban Airspace Design: The Future Regulatory Landscape

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) are transformative technologies that will revolutionize the manner that cargo and passengers are transported in the local environment.

Advanced Air Mobility Human factors Considerations for Current eVTOL Pilot Interfaces

Advanced air mobility (AAM) is a novel transportation concept using electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to move people and cargo in urban and rural environments.

Strengthening Oklahoma’s Aviation Maintenance Workforce Pipeline through Collaborative Efforts of CareerTech, Educational Institutions and Industry Partners

As the needs of the 21st century aviation/aerospace workforce change and in-demand job skills evolve, it becomes increasingly important to cohesively bring industry and education together to produce a well-trained, quali…

Using Technology Pedagogy to Enable Workforce Development, Inclusion and Diversity into the Aerospace Industry

The pool of aviation mechanics and technicians is not growing fast enough to support the projected growth in aviation. A group of stakeholders has come together with a big idea to help attract the next generation of tale…

The Value of Strong Partnerships to Build a Successful Aviation Maintenance Career Pathway Program for Transitioning Military Service Members

The aerospace industry is competing with other industries for a qualified workforce, and many of those competing industries are investing heavily in creating workforce development pipelines.

The Necessity of Global Standardization Guidelines for Space Travel

This study explored the interest in global standardization guidelines for space travel. Due to the lack of accepted minimum international standards and commercialized space travel guidelines, there is a need to explore t…

Approaching language as a human factor in aviation: the challenges of pilot language training in the academic level in Brazil

Language training for pilots poses challenges worldwide as the use of Aviation English entails a number of features portrayed from a Human Factors perspective.

Developing Critical Thinking and Effective Communication Skills in the Future Aviation Workforce

Critical thinking and effective communication are among the top skills necessary for developing a resilient future workforce across professional areas.

Student Research Opportunities in Aviation Human Factors

When most people think of jobs in aviation or at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), they think of pilots, Air Traffic Controllers, Maintainers, etc., those directly involved in the movement of aircraft, passenger…

Change Fatigue in Aviation Maintenance through a Human Factors Lens

Aviation is a demanding and fast-paced industry and it is not uncommon for aviation professionals, including maintainers, to experience rapid disruption and organizational change.

Targeting the Workforce of Tomorrow Today

Strategically designed and implemented Aviation STEM (AvSTEM) education programs are essential to the future of aviation. As the retirement of a large portion of the aviation workforce rapidly approaches, the industry wi…

What role do individual differences play in attrition for high school students in a STEM Curriculum?

Workforce of the future begins with Aviation STEM

The United States has always been a world leader in aviation. This leadership position relies on the strength of the American STEM workforce and the quality of the nation’s educational, industrial, and government institu…

Development of Critical Thinking Skills In Collegiate Aviation Programs

Critical thinking requires an individual to gather and interpret data, develop conclusions based upon relevant findings, and implement the best solution.

Development and Evaluation of an Online Fatigue Training Course for Collegiate Aviation Pilots

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have called for a holistic approach toward improving safety.

Dimensionality Assessment of Fatigue in Collegiate Aviation Operations: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

There have been recommendations for evidence-based studies into the safety risk posed by fatigue in the flight training environment from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), National Transportation Safet…

Determining The Effectiveness of Single-Pilot Resource Management in General Aviation

This research aims to determine the effectiveness of single-pilot resource management (SRM) towards improved safety in general aviation (GA) as compared to its counterpart, crew resource management (CRM), in commercial a…

Why should airline workers be trained to respond to fume events?

The potential for engine oil and hydraulic fluid fumes to contaminate the ventilation air supplied to the aircraft cabin and flight deck has been recognized since the 1950s as a function of the design and maintenance of …

Utilizing Drones to Streamline Wildlife Hazard Management Efforts by Airport Operators

Airports operating under the Code of Federal Regulations Part 139 should conduct a wildlife hazard assessment (WHA) when some wildlife-strike events have occurred at or near the airport.

An Aviator Centered Approach to Mental Health: A Preliminary Look at Stressors, Barriers to Care, and Untreated Aviator Mental Health

The purposeful crash of Germanwings 9525 in March 2015 provided a wake-up call to the aviation community on the ramifications of untreated mental health in commercial aviation.

An Analysis of the Effect of Self-Efficacy of Female Students in Collegiate Flight Programs

The purpose of this research was to examine the effect of self-efficacy of male and female students in collegiate flight programs to identify if a relationship exists between self-efficacy responses and gender representa…

CFIs’ Safety Behaviors at Flight Training Schools: Understanding the Effects of Personality Traits, Self-Efficacy, Risk Perception, and Safety Climate

According to Aircraft Owners Pilot Association [2], approximately 63% of the accidents involving certified flight instructors (CFIs) occurred during advanced training, which involves low altitude operations, critical dec…

Development of Upset Recovery and Basic Aerobatic Courses for Collegiate Flight Training Programs

Upset recovery and aerobatics are two topics in general aviation that are often overlooked by commercial pilots in training. This can be due to several different constraints, such as not having the time or resources to r…

FAA Designated Pilot Examiner System Insights

As part of the Reauthorization Act of 2018 the FAA was required to assign to the Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC) a review of the current Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE) policies.

Development of a Safety Performance Decision-Making Tool for Flight Training Organizations

The purpose of the research was to create and validate a safety performance decision-making tool to transform a reactive safety model into a predictive, decision-making tool, specific to large, collegiate Title 14 of the…

Airline Pilot Risk Profiling by Using Unstable Approach Management Case

Risk and human decision-making cannot be separated from each other. Many of theories and studies have tried to analyze pilots’ decision-making processes, risk factors, and preference behavior in the aviation domain.

A bidirectional deep LSTM machine learning method for flight delay modelling and analysis

Flight delays can be prevented by providing a reference point from an accurate prediction model because predicting flight delays is a problem with a specific space.

Integrated Organizational Machine Learning for Aviation Flight Data

An increased availability of data and computing power has allowed organizations to apply machine learning techniques to various fleet monitoring activities.

Factors Influencing Users’ Attitudes Towards Using Brain Computer Interface (BCI) for Non Medical Uses: An Application of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

While brain-computer interfaces (BCI) are gaining popularity in assisting people with illnesses, there is also increased technical research on incorporating BCI into healthy people’s lives.

The Diversification of the US Airline Pilot Career Field: Perceptions of Collegiate Flight Students.

There will be a tremendous need for commercial pilots over the next ten years. To maintain a pipeline of pilots, a US airline announced a diversity initiative in March 2021 to operate their own flight school with the goa…

Aircraft Energy Management: A Best Practice for Integrating Safety and Efficiency

Aircraft Energy Management: A Best Practice for Integrating Safety and Efficiency The airplane is the quintessential energy system, constantly transforming, transferring, distributing, storing, and exchanging various for…

Neutralization of Fuel Tankering Emissions for Environmental Sustainability

As aviation has been one of the fastest-growing sources of emissions, this paper explores sustainable solutions in the equation of the economic savings from the fuel tankering practice, in a way it could represent gains …

Using an Augmented Reality App for Flight Training

As the global demand for aviation pilots continues to drastically increase, flight schools are experiencing a large influx of ab-initio flight students.

Integration of Virtual Reality Procedural Training in a Flight Training Curriculum

As Virtual Reality (VR) technology becomes more affordable, integrating VR training into pilot training programs is becoming a focus of many flight schools and universities.

Mental Health in Pilots Ages 19-26: What are the new pilots telling us?

Mental Health is stigma that reaches all professional pilots. After spending a considerable amount of money, a pilot is always afraid of losing his/her medical certification.

Validation of Training Satisfaction Survey

The Training Satisfaction Survey (TSS) was developed as part of a larger project to examine the features of Virtual Reality software and supporting devices as a training program on visual illusions and spatial disorienta…

Improved Feedback Mechanisms of the Hydraulics Sandbox Simulator

The proposed presentation will include the following project and results from implementation in an aircraft hydraulic systems course. In 2020 we developed a digital hydraulics system schematic sandbox for use in an FAA P…

Training and the pilot shortage

For the past few years, securing a pipeline of new pilots has been a primary concern for airlines around the world. In an Oliver Wyman poll of flight operations leaders, 62 percent listed a shortage of qualified pilots a…

Analysis of the Emerging Pilot Workforce

The pilot workforce grew by approximately 20,000 pilots between 2011 – 2019 before shedding almost 6,500 jobs in 2020 due to COVID-19.

Channel Reuse for Backhaul in UAV Mobile Networks with User QoS Guarantee

In mobile networks, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acting as flying base stations (FlyBSs) can effectively improve performance. Nevertheless, such potential improvement requires an efficient positioning of the FlyBS.

Design, Modeling and Control of a Top-loading Fully-Actuated Cargo Transportation Multirotor

Existing multirotor-based cargo transportation does not maintain a constant cargo attitude due to underactuation; however, fragile payloads may require a consistent posture.

A low Mach enthalpy method to model non-isothermal gas-liquid-solid flows with melting and solidification

Modeling phase change problems numerically is vital for understanding many natural (e.g., ice formation, steam generation) and engineering processes (e.g., casting, welding, additive manufacturing).

Experimental investigation on the turbulent wake flow in fully-established transonic buffet conditions

The transonic flight regime is often dominated by transonic buffet, a highly unsteady and complex shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction involving major parts of the flow field.