Research papers

Qualitative Analysis of Loss of Control Aircraft Accidents Using Text Mining Techniques

The purpose of this study was to analyze the narrative National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) accident cause descriptions for general aviation (GA) Loss of Control (LOC) accident reports by the different certificati…

Assessing Situation Awareness in Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operations

The objective of this study was to investigate the potential utility of the Situation Awareness Linked Indicators Adapted to Novel Tasks (SALIANT) methodology as an assessment tool in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) oper…

Detecting and Assessing Collision Potential of Aircraft and Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) by Visual Observers

Visual observers are used to assist the Remote Pilot with maintaining sight of the unmanned aircraft as well as scanning the surrounding airspace for potential collision hazards.

Book Review: Angle of Attack: Air France 447 and the Future of Aviation Safety

This review provides insight on the content and a review of the quality of the recent release of Angle of Attack: Air France 447 and the Future of Aviation Safety from Lexographic.

A Generic Formation Controller and State Observer for Multiple Unmanned Systems

In this paper, we present a novel decentralized controller to drive multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into a symmetric formation of regular polygon shape surrounding a mobile target.

Wingtip Vortex Alleviation Using a Reverse Delta Type Add-on Device

The result of interactions of a wingtip vortex of a half-span wing and vortices generated by a slender reverse delta type add-on device were studied using Particle Image Velocimetry in a closed-loop low-speed wind tunnel…

Attitudes Toward Controlled Rest in Position (CRIP): A Gender Comparison Between Pilots and Non-Pilots

Prior studies demonstrate that controlled rest in position (CRIP) may help compensate for pilot fatigue. CRIP allows for one pilot to nap in their cockpit seat during the cruise phase of flight, provided that certain pol…

Skin-Spar Failure Detection of a Composite Winglet Using FBG Sensors

Winglets are introduced into modern aircraft to reduce wing aerodynamic drag and to consequently optimize the fuel burn per mission. In order to be aerodynamically effective, these devices are installed at thewing tip se…

Spatial Disorientation Mishaps in U.S. Civil Aviation, 1996-2015

Twenty-year review of fatal civil aviation accidents involving spatial disorientation. Categorizes by illusion type (somatogravic, leans, false horizon, graveyard spiral), pilot certificate level, and flight phase.

Workshop 2: What You Don’t Know About Situational Awareness

Many aviation professionals feel confident in their ability to identify “situational awareness.” However, are aviation professionals really on the same page when they talk about situational awareness (SA)? How does SA di…

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Lunch Keynote Speaker — Public-Private Partnership (3P): Addressing the National Pilot Crisis Through Collaboration

Maj Gen Tommy Williams will discuss the national pilot crisis broadly, U.S. Air Force mission requirements from the strategic level, the National Pilot Sourcing Forum and Industry Collaboration efforts, and outline a pro…

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Workshop 1: Full Hypoxia Awareness Course

This workshop will offer two hours of classroom discussion on high altitude physiology followed by two hours of training in the High Altitude Laboratory (HAL).

Developing Solutions for the Aviation Industry Challenges: Collaborative Effort to Solve the Pilot Shortage

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A Preliminary Comparison of Pilots' Weather Minimums and Actual Decision-Making

Adverse weather conditions remain a leading contributing factor in general aviation accidents. In compromising situations, such as severe weather, pilots continue to make decisions, which endanger themselves, passengers,…

Effects of Graphical Weather Information versus Textual Weather Information on Situation Awareness in Meteorology

Prior to a flight, pilots gather meteorological information in order to assess the weather conditions pertaining to their flight and to make decisions based on it.

Improving Instructor Quality using the Conversation Analytic Role-play Method (CARM)

The audience will learn about Stokoe’s Conversation Analytic Role-play Method (CARM) (http://www.carmtraining.org) and how it has been used to study and improve talk-in-interaction in professional settings.

Evaluating GA Pilots' Interpretation of New Automated Weather Products

Introduction: Over the past 30 years, General Aviation (GA) operations have incurred the majority of weather related accidents in civil aviation operations.

Session 7: Aviation Education and Weather Impact on Flight Training

This session will include five presentations about Education and Flight Simulation. Topics include improvements in instructor teaching quality, as well as training and evaluating best practices of weather products and me…

Assessing General Aviation Pilots' Weather Knowledge and Self-Efficacy

While accident trends in General Aviation (GA) have decreased overall, accidents rates involving weather have remained relatively consistent over the past 10 years.

Age Differences in Helicopter Accidents: A Preliminary Investigation

This study utilized the NTSB database from 2006 to 2016 to examine differences in severity of accidents by age for helicopter operations. There were 1023 cases included in the data (97.1% male and 2.9% female).

The Extent of Distraction of Cell Phone Conversations for Passengers in Simulated Flight

Currently, passengers are forbidden from making cell phone calls during flights in the United States due to safety concerns. However, some related research has demonstrated that the interference of cell phone use with av…

An Alternative Method of Identification of a Failed Engine in Twin-Engine Turboprop Aircraft

Previous incidents and accidents involving twin-engine aircraft, including the recent TransAsia Flight 235 crash, have revealed that pilots are prone to mistakes in identifying the engine that fails, and subsequently, sh…

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Poster Session — NTAS Presenters and ERAU-PhD Programs

This session will include over 60 poster presentations from NTAS participants and ERAU-Daytona Beach's Ph.D. in Aviation program and Ph.D. in Aviation Business Administration program.

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Van Service from ERAU to Hotel

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Flight Instructor Professionalism

The inherent risk associated with aviation demands a high level of professionalism among aviation employees to ensure safety. Professionalism consists of factors such as technical competence, personal competence, neatnes…

Pilot Professionalism and Attitude Management: A New CRM Generation?

Crew Resource Management (CRM) is the professional training program provided by air carriers to assist pilots in their use of all resources (human, hardware, and software).

Generational Shift: Why We Should Modify Our Instructional Strategies for the Next Generations of Aviators

Air transportation has proven to be an extremely safe, efficient and reliable means for travel – a testament to highly effective instruction and training.

Understanding Generation: Implications for Flight Training, Hiring, and Retention

Generation is a much discussed topic in the literature on workforce training and education. The simultaneous presence of numerous generations in the workforce has created tensions, challenges, and opportunities.

Session 6: Professionalism - The Challenges of Preparing the Next Generation

The Challenge of Preparing the Next Generation. Six interesting talks will be given in this session. Presentations include generational issues and differences, the importance of instructional strategies on professionalis…

Leadership, Excellence and Professionalism (LEaP)

United Airlines is proactively preparing for known and unknown operations threats associated with retirements, hiring, growth along with the pending generational upheaval, NextGen, technology, and the upcoming mandate on…

No Time Like the Present: Introducing the Next Generation of Human Factors

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Afternoon Featured Speaker — Restoring the Foundation of Aviation: 2030 and Beyond

The foundational health and vitality of general aviation has been in slow but steady decline for decades as the result of a number of factors.

Recipe for Success: Behavioral Ingredients for Superior Performing Leaders

The aviation and aerospace business is a complex adaptive system that includes emerging technologies, competitors, government policies, cost demands, globalization, and talent constraints.

The Application of Shared Leadership in an Aviation Maintenance MTS Environment

The use of a multiteam system approach has been proven useful for many organizational environments, notably those that operate in dynamic and demanding surroundings.

Why Do We Learn What We Learn? The Intersection of Leadership and Learning in Aviation Environments

Why do we learn what we learn? Teach what we teach? Train how we train? Largely, decisions regarding instruction and training in aviation environments are dictated by leadership.

Session 5: Leadership in Aviation

Four presentations will be given during this session. Topics include multi-team systems in an aviation maintenance environment, leadership in an unpredictable environment, instructional planning, how learning and leading…

Delta Air Lines and Its Future

A synopsis of current hiring at Delta and what the airline is looking for in candidates.

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Lunch Buffet — Sponsored by Talon

Lunch Keynote Speaker — Challenges of Increasing Automation

The theory of automation is that it can eliminate human error by eliminating the human from the loop. Experience has demonstrated, however, that although automation can significantly increase productivity, efficiency, re…

Challenges of Increasing Automation

The theory of automation is that it can eliminate human error by eliminating the human from the loop. Experience has demonstrated, however, that although automation can significantly increase productivity, efficiency, re…