Research papers

Analysing the Threats of the Failure of Visual Awareness and Cognitive Bias During a Visual Approach for Commercial Operations

The purpose of this study is to conduct a detailed analysis of the limitation of visual awareness that flight crew experience while conducting visual approaches to an airport.

Evaluating Scenarios That Can Startle and Surprise Pilots

Startle and surprise in the cockpit have contributed to multiple aviation accidents. The aviation safety boards of France, the United States, and Holland have concluded that startle and surprise pose a serious threat to …

Augmenting Aeronautical Decision Making (ADM) With Error and Threat Management Training in Young Pilots

The purpose of the presentation is to share best practices used to teach the Threat and Error Management (TEM) framework as a decision-making starting point to adolescent pilots (under 18 years).

Exploring Dynamic Delegated Corridors and 4D Required Navigation Performance Trajectory to Enable UAM Aircraft to Integrate into the Existing Airspace System

Increased traffic congestion on urban road networks has impacted the travel time for commuters in highly populated urban centers. Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is recognized as a system that transports the passenger and air c…

Concurrent Sessions: Session 6A - Urban Air Mobility

Concurrent Sessions: Session 6B - Aviation Safety Management Systems

The Path Forward for States to Integrate UAM

Urban air mobility is an exciting next step in the area of urban transportation. While it faces many significant challenges, many states like Ohio, North Carolina, Utah, etc. are working hard to overcome them.

The Universality of Communication: Preparing the Next Generation of Aviation Professionals

Current aviation college programs aim to prepare the next generation of aviation professionals to meet the needs of the ever-increasing global demand for air travel.

Applying and Evaluating a Taxonomy of Resilient Performance Among Certified Flight Instructors

Human error in aviation has been well studied, but the contribution of human performance to system resilience in aviation has not been as well explored.

The Impact of an International Aviation Leadership Development Program on Organizational Effectiveness

Leadership development is critical for organizational progress. Leaders who are strong in operations and talent management maximization are a strength to organizational effectiveness (Andenoro et al., 2015).

Improving Assessments and Evaluations of Pilots in Collegiate Aviation Programs

The purpose of the proposed study is to improve assessments and evaluation techniques of student pilots in collegiate aviation programs.

Avoiding Death by Discussion Board: Asynchronous Online Chats in Aviation History

Universities and colleges are increasingly turning to online course offerings, especially in aviation education. Faculty are increasingly asked to turn their in-person courses into online flavors.

Concurrent Sessions: Session 5B - Innovations in Collegiate Aviation

Concurrent Sessions: Session 5A - Professionalism & Leadership in Aviation

Recommended Training Practices to Prepare Pilots to Cope with Information Conflicts

As the next generation of flight deck information systems are being utilized on the flight deck, pilots now have greater amounts of information at their fingertips.

Break

Morning Keynote Speaker — Together, We Thrive!

Whether you are an aviation professional, academia, government or industry, the challenges and difficulties facing the aviation industry now and into the future, will require: BOLD LEADERSHIP that is thoughtful, reflecti…

Welcome

Hotel Shuttles/Uber/Taxi from Hotels to ERAU

Hotel Shuttles/Uber/Taxi from ERAU to Hotels

Cocktail & Networking Reception

Panel: Supporting Diversity in the Aviation Industry

Since its humble beginnings in 1903, aviation has become a global economic powerhouse. Air travel is as accessible as it has ever been. The global airline industry continues to grow at over 5% per year.

Break

The Effects of Cultural Factors on Safety in Aviation Focusing on Asian and Western Cultures

Several aviation accidents from the past, such as the Asiana Flight 214 crash at San Francisco International Airport in 2015, have highlighted possible effects of Korean hierarchy culture on the safety of flight.

Adversity: Its Affect on the Resilience of Female Pilots

Women are one of the solutions to alleviating the pending pilot shortage. Becoming a pilot needs to appeal to women. Resilience plays an important role in determining whether women in male-dominated career fields will pu…

Session 4 - Diversity in Aviation

Lunch Keynote Speaker — Automation & Other Stuff

Conference Welcome & Introduction of Keynote Speaker

Introduction of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University President

Pilot-Supply Sustainability—Standards, Outreach, and Mentoring

Flight training organizations in North America are experiencing strong student interest in flight training and a career as a professional pilot.

An Examination of Recent Female Graduates from a Collegiate Aviation Program and their Decisions to Become Professional Pilots

Despite evidence of males and females having generally comparable abilities as pilots, very few women choose this career path. According to the Federal Aviation Administration database of aviators, approximately 7% of th…

Gender Differences in Factors Influencing Retention in Aviation Occupations

In the past 90 years, the workforce has been diversified in many fields yet diversity in the pilot workforce has remained stagnant. This also holds true for other aviation occupations (e.g., aviation maintenance, air tra…

Session 3 - Pilot Supply - Addressing the Needs: Diversifying the Industry

Break — Sponsored by Marathon Aviation

Preliminary Results of a Study Investigating Aviation Students' Intentions to use Virtual Reality for Flight Training

Educators have incorporated technology into flight training for decades. These devices have increased in complexity since the Link trainers of the early 20th century, resulting in aviation training devices, full flight s…

Developing a Safety Performance Algorithm (SPA) for Part 141 Flight Departments

Utilizing a two-phase approach, the purpose of the research was to create and validate a single quantitative indicator of flight safety performance for Part 141 flight departments to increase the accuracy of the Risk Man…

Measuring Fatigue and Sleepiness in Collegiate Aviation Pilots

The National Transportation Safety Board has communicated the need to reduce fatigue related accidents through the top ten most wanted list.

A Look at Risk Attitude: Flight Students Compared to Non-Flight Students

This study delves into a student pilot’s ability to perceive levels of risk compared to non-flight students. A pilot’s ability to assess risks and adequately mitigate or prevent that risk is essential for safe operation.…

Holographic Telepresence and Collaborative Learning Platforms: The Future Reality of Aviation Education

Mixed reality (MR) and telepresence technologies present a new paradigm of augmented reality, where for the first time we have the ability to take the analog world and superimpose digital 3D training artifacts in collabo…

Using VR for Training how to Conduct A Tire Change on an Aircraft

Virtual Reality (VR) is becoming an affordable and increasingly common tool for training. Twenty-four Aviation Maintenance Science students were randomly assigned to a VR group or a Traditional Training (Demonstration) g…

Critical Design Decisions to Support the Adoption and Impact of Virtual Reality Aircraft Maintenance Training Systems

A recent forecast conducted by Boeing predicted a shortage of over 750,000 technicians by 2037. The reasons for this shortage range from retention issues and a shrinking technical workforce to higher future flight demand…

Concurrent Sessions: Session 2B - Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality/Mixed Reality in Aviation Training

Concurrent Sessions: Session 2A - Aviation Safety Management Systems

Fatigue in Collegiate Aviation

Flight training has received little attention in fatigue research. Only transfers of knowledge gained in commercial and military aviation have been applied to general aviation without bridging the gap to the training env…

Concurrent Sessions: Session 1A - Flight Training

Concurrent Sessions: Session 1B - UAS: Industry Perspectives

Students’ Perspective of Self-Guided Simulation Training on Process in the Initial Phase of Private Pilot Flight Training: A Preliminary Review

As the demand for flight training increases, self-guided training methods for students can be explored to determine their effect on environment for learning.

Backwards Chaining – Accelerating Solo Flight Training

Flight simulation has made progressively significant inroads into pilot training at all levels of a pilot’s career – typically starting with training for the Instrument rating in light aircraft and concluding with Type C…

Student Learning and Retention Using a Flight Training Device: A Case Study

Student learning and retention as a function of the mode of teaching is analyzed in this study. Different groups of students receive information about aircraft flight operations either via lecture, through directed study…

Student Pilot Perceptions of Flight Training

Within the aviation industry, there is an increasing demand for an estimated 635,000 new pilots over the next 20 years (Boeing, 2018).