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Hotel Shuttle/Uber/Taxi to Campus

Hotel Shuttle/Uber/Taxi to Hotels

Affinity Mixer - The Affinity Mixer is sponsored by United Airlines

Mix and mingle with representatives and members of professional organizations, such as Women in Aviation International, Latino Pilots Association & Empowering Latina Leader Aviators Subcommittee, National Gay Pilots Asso…

The Flying Hobos

Special Performance of The Flying Hobos The Flying Hobos is an interactive living history play that demonstrates the life and accomplishments of the first African Americans to fly across the United States.

Break - Coffee service sponsored by Airbus

Session 3 B - Research in Flight Training

Session 3 A – Advancing Aviation: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Session 3 C - Issues in Aviation Safety

Break - Coffee service sponsored by Airbus

Lunch with Keynote - Ellen Ebner

Break - Coffee service sponsored by Airbus

Industry Panel – Leading the Way: A Commitment to Sustainability in the Aviation Industry

Panelists will discuss sustainability goals in the aviation industry, and how their organizations are taking steps to achieve them.

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Hotel Shuttle/Uber/Taxi to Campus

Hotel Shuttle/Uber/Taxi to Hotels

Industry Panel - Women’s Leadership: Working Towards Closing the Gender Equality Gap

Building inclusive and equitable workplaces, sharing career success strategies and best practices, and exploring what is needed in today’s aviation industry to close the gender gap will be discussed by panelists.

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Session 2B - Achieving Aviation Sustainability: Operations, Design, & Training

Session 2A - AR, VR, & Weather Simulation – Advances in Training

Session 2C - Insights into DEI in the Aviation Industry

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Lunch with Keynote - Jo Damato

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Session 1C - Mental Health & Fatigue in the Aviation Industry

Session 1B - Technology in Education & Training

Session 1A - Insights & Solutions to the Pilot Shortage

Break - Coffee service sponsored by Airbus

Industry Panel - Workplace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) Revolution: From Talk to Collective Action

Panelists will discuss initiatives in the workplace, lessons learned, and resources for people and organizations to take action at work and in the community.

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Hotel Shuttle/Uber/Taxi to Campus

Andrew J. Coleman

Joanne "Jo" Damato

Ellen Ebner

Airline Quality Rating 2022

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.

SMS for Part 135 Commuter and On-Demand Operations - The Practitioner’s Perspective

On May 15th, 2017, N452DA, a Learjet 35A operated by Trans-Pacific Air Charter, LLC, departed from Philadelphia to Teterboro, New Jersey (TEB) on a positioning flight under 14 Code of Federal Regulations § 91 (Part 91) i…

Applying Lessons from Safety-II Proof of Concept in Line Operational Safety Audit to Aviation Maintenance

Maintenance safety culture is a topic that continues to arise. There is much information in many different literature sources that discusses measuring, analyzing, and scrutinizing data to determine if a safety culture ex…

Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Simulations for Civilian, Ab Initio Pilot Training

Aviation training in the immersive Virtual Reality (VR) world has the power to overcome physical constraints, presenting cues and stimuli that would not be available in flight, nor in a two-dimensional (2D) environment.

An Analysis of Air Traffic Controllers’ Job Satisfaction

The air traffic controllers' job is one of the most hectic in today’s world, predominantly due to its safety-critical operations and altering expectations.

School Choice Factors Influencing U.S. Domestic and International Student Pilots’ Selections of Vocational Flight Schools

As international civil aviation activities resume from the COVID-19 pandemic, along with fleet growth and high retirement rates for senior pilots, there is a concern about the industry’s capability in supplying sufficien…

Plain Language or Anything But?

This paper focuses on what language needs to be used in emergencies by air traffic controllers based on an investigation of plain language definitions and descriptions in International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) …

Investigation of Pilots' Visual Entropy and Eye Fixations for Simulated Flights Consisted of Multiple Take-Offs and Landings

Eye movement characteristics might provide insights on pilots' mental fatigue during prolonged flight. The visual entropy, eye fixation numbers, and eye fixation durations of ten novice pilots and ten expert pilots were …

A Panel Study of Outsourced Maintenance Impact on Major U.S. Passenger Airlines' Profitability (1995-2019)

This study investigates eight viable United States major passenger airlines' outsourced maintenance impact on profitability between 1995 and 2019 by using panel data analysis.

“You’ll Never Really Be One of Us”: Women’s Underrepresentation in the Aviation Workforce

Women are underrepresented in many aviation occupations despite outreach and recruitment efforts from multiple organizations. Attracting women into aviation is a necessity not only to address workforce demand but also to…

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…

Medium Altitude Long Endurance RPA Training: Evaluating Blended Learning

The Heads Down Display (HDD) Menu Trainer – a stand-alone software trainer – was developed to familiarize students in Remotely Piloted Aircraft training with the layout and manipulation of the HDD menus for either the MQ…

Interactions of International Pilots' Stress, Fatigue, Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, Common Mental Disorders and Wellbeing

Objective This study Investigates more dimensions than previous studies simultaneously: pilots’ duty rosters, stress, sleep difficulties, fatigue levels, wellbeing, symptoms of depression, anxiety, and common mental diso…

Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Regulatory Landscape: Unravelling the Future Challenges in the High Sky

The individuals on the ground nowadays often observe objects distantly hover over the sky, which raises the question of who might be operating the object or what the object might record.

SPACE CARGO: Ultra-fast Delivery on Earth –Potential of Using Suborbital Space Vehicles for the Transportation of Cargo