Research papers
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2015 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Risk Perception in Aviation Students: Weather Matters
Sixty-three aviation major students and 71 non-aviation major students participated in an experiment concerning aviation experience and risk perception (Risk Perception Scale, RPS; Hunter, 2002).
- arXiv 2015 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Mathematical Modelling of Tyndall Star Initiation
The superheating that usually occurs when a solid is melted by volumetric heating can produce irregular solid-liquid interfaces. Such interfaces can be visualised in ice, where they are sometimes known as Tyndall stars.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2015 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Consistency of Aviation Students When Taking the Private Pilot Knowledge Exam
Inconsistency is the enemy of performance. Several researchers have conducted a number of studies examining consistency in a variety of laboratory tasks; however, no research to date has looked at test-taking consistency…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2015 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
SMS and CRM: Parallels and Opposites in their Evolution
The current study compared the evolution of Crew Resource Management (CRM) and Safety Management Systems (SMS). Though CRM is a mature safety tool, it continues to change.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2015 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Assessing Computer Vision Syndrome Risk for Pilots
The purpose of this study was to determine if pilots are at risk for computer vision syndrome (CVS) as computer display technology becomes commonplace in modern cockpits and simulators.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2015 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Identification of Air Traffic Management Principles Influential in the Development of an Airport Arrival Delay Prediction Model
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, worldwide air traffic has steadily been increasing towards peak levels reported from 2000 to 2001 (Federal Aviation Administration [FAA], 2011). Although U.S.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2015 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Development of Training Scenarios in the Flight Training Device for Flight Courses at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s (ERAU) Daytona Beach Campus operates as a certificated flight school under 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 141.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2015 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Is “Green Dot” Always the Optimum Engines-Out Glide Speed on the Airbus A320 Aircraft?
The dual-engine failure checklist of the Airbus A320 states that the optimum airspeed at which the aircraft can be flown is the “green dot” speed when an engine restart is considered impossible.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2015 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Starting a Safety Management System Culture in Small Flight School Organizations
Small flight school organizations have unique cultures and challenges which are very different from larger air carrier and air charter organizations.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2015 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Real-time Computer-based Simulation as an Intervention in Aerodynamics Education
The purpose of this research was to conduct an experiment where simulation was used as an instructional strategy and potential intervention for improved student posttest performance in an aeronautical science aerodynamic…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2015 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
A Study of How Flight Instructors Assess Flight Maneuvers and Give Grades: Inter-rater Reliability of Instructor Assessments
This article discusses calibration of flight instruction to an academic institution’s “gold standard”. Flight instructors reviewed four lessons within the private pilot curriculum.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2015 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Human Behavior During Spaceflight - Evidence From an Analog Environment
Spaceflight offers a multitude of stressors to humans living and working in space, originating from the external space environment and the life-support system.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2015 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
A Meta-Analysis of Crew Resource Management/Incident Command Systems Implementation Studies in the Fire and Emergency Services
This research is a meta-analysis of studies on Crew Resource Management (CRM)/Incident Command System implementation in the fire and emergency services.
- Semantic Scholar 2015 Article
Maintenance Requirements in Aerospace Systems
Abstract The paper discusses the importance of granularity in maintenance requirements. This becomes significantly important when investigating false alarms that cannot be verified, nor duplicated under typical inspectio…
- Semantic Scholar 2015 Article
Commercial Aviation Safety, 5th Edition By Clarence Rodrigues;Stephen Cusick
- Semantic Scholar 2015 Article (International Conference on Conceptual Structures)
Dynamic Data-driven Avionics Systems: Inferring Failure Modes from Data Streams
Abstract Dynamic Data-Driven Avionics Systems (DDDAS) embody ideas from the Dynamic Data- Driven Application Systems paradigm by creating a data-driven feedback loop that analyzes spatio-temporal data streams coming from…
- Semantic Scholar 2015 Article
A risk-based framework for assessment of runway incursion events
A new framework is presented, which is based on the risk of scenarios associated with the initiation of runway incursion events, rather than on the outcomes of the events, to enable effective safety management for the mo…
- Semantic Scholar 2015 Article
The Impact of Safety Management Systems on Safety Performance: Commercial Aviation Operations
- arXiv 2014 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multiprocessor System Dedicated to Multi-Rotor Mini-UAV Capable of 3D flying
The paper describes an electronic multiprocessor system that assures functionality of a miniature UAV capable of 3D flying. The apparatus consists of six independently controlled brushless DC motors, each having a propel…
- Semantic Scholar 2014 Article (Prognostics and System Health Management Conference)
Performance deterioration evaluation analysis of aircraft engine based on simulation
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2014 ERAU Conference paper
Tracks & Presenters
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2014 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Situational Leadership Styles in United States Air Force Air Traffic Control Towers
Leadership in air traffic control facilities is critical to the safe, orderly, and efficient flow of air traffic. The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine the preferred leadership style for United States Ai…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2014 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
An Inquiry into the Aviation Management Education Paradigm Shift
Working adults with four-year degrees from accredited colleges or universities earn, on average, almost three times more than individuals without a degree.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2014 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Achieving global range in future subsonic and supersonic airplanes
No commercial airplane in service today is able to fly half great-circle distances over the globe and achieve the non-stop or the global range to any antipodal location on Earth.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2014 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Reliability of Eyewitness Reports to a Major Aviation Accident
There is a paucity of studies on the reliability of eyewitness reports to aviation crashes. We examine witness statements to a widely observed major airline accident to determine if reported accident investigator distrus…
- NASA NTRS 2014 LaRC Presentation
300 FT Runway Visual Range (RVR) Experiment Review
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2014 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Aerodynamic Optimization of Box Wing – A Case Study
The optimization of a possible medium range box wing commercial airliner is presented in three stages. Preliminary research is used to determine various parameters for a potential box wing model, and a baseline model is …
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2014 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Preferred Learning Mode, Instructor Competence and Tuition Reimbursement: What our Faculty and Students are Telling Us
This research examined comments in open response areas from 228 faculty and 659 student surveys regarding learning mode preference (classroom, online, video synchronous) instructor competence with technology and the impa…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2014 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Improving Airplane Touchdown Control by Utilizing the Adverse Elevator Effect
The main objective of this original research article is to understand the short-term dynamic behavior of the transport-category airplane during landing flare elevator control application.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2014 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Colgan Air Accident-Driven Changes to Part 121 Flight Operations: It is Time for Phase Two (Editorial)
It has been just one year since the FAA mandated a minimum of 1500 total flight hours for all part 121 pilots and the implementation of the corresponding 3-tier restricted ATP program based on reduced flight hours.
- arXiv 2014 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Complexity Indicator for 4D Flight Trajectories Based on Conflict Probability
In this paper, a complexity indicator for 4D flight trajectories is developed based on conflict probability. A 4D trajectory is modeled as piecewise linear segments connected by waypoints.
- Semantic Scholar 2014 Article
DEVELOPMENT OF A BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORK RUNWAY INCURSION AND EXCURSION MODEL
The combined system-level BBN model will allow NASA to generically model the causes of RI and RE events and to assess the effectiveness of technology products being developed under NASA funding.
- arXiv 2014 ARXIV arXiv preprint
The Impact of Oceanic Heat Transport on the Atmospheric Circulation: a Thermodynamic Perspective
The present study investigates how global thermodynamic properties of the climate system are affected by the changes in the intensity of the imposed oceanic heat transport in an atmospheric general circulation model in a…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2014 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Measurable Outcomes of Safety Culture in Aviation - A Meta-Analytic Review
Though the complimentary concepts of safety culture and safety climate have become increasingly popular over the past three decades, they have only infrequently been central to research designed to examine the empirical …
- arXiv 2014 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Vehicle Parameter Independent Gain Matrix Selection for a Quadrotor using State-Space Controller Design Methods
With quadrotor use seeing extensive growth in recent years, the autonomous control of these Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is an increasing relevant and intersting field.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2014 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Interactive 3-D Software in Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Training
As the nexus between aviation, fire science, and emergency management becomes increasingly more complex, technology can be used to augment training and avoid risk while maintaining authenticity with situational reality.
- Semantic Scholar 2014 Article
Consistency of the Relations of Cognitive Ability and Personality Traits to Pilot Training Performance
- Semantic Scholar 2014 Article
Examining the Effectiveness of Pre-Flight Cabin Safety Announcements in Commercial Aviation
- Semantic Scholar 2014 Article
Numerical simulation of crash impact test for fuel cell group of rotorcraft
- NASA NTRS 2014 CDMS Conference Paper
Determining Training Device Requirements in Army Aviation Systems
A decision making methodology which applies the systems approach to the training problem is discussed. Training is viewed as a total system instead of a collection of individual devices and unrelated techniques.
- NASA NTRS 2014 CDMS Conference Paper
What Pilots like (and Don't Like) About the New Cockpit Technology
Pilot's perceptions of the new cockpit technology in the B-767 are discussed. Although the data reported were taken from the introductory experience of the B-767, it is felt that similar, if not identical, results would …
- arXiv 2014 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Flight control of tethered kites in autonomous pumping cycles for airborne wind energy
Energy harvesting based on tethered kites benefits from exploiting higher wind speeds at higher altitudes. The setup considered in this paper is based on a pumping cycle.
- NTSB Aircraft Accident Reports 2014 NTSB Accident report
Crash during a Nighttime Nonprecision Instrument Approach — UPS 1354
UPS Flight 1354 (A300-600F) Birmingham AL, August 14, 2013. Investigation of UPS 1354 crash short of runway 18 at Birmingham. NTSB found unstabilized approach + flight crew fatigue + airline scheduling practices contribu…
- Semantic Scholar 2014 Article
Significant Human Risk Factors in Aviation Maintenance
- Semantic Scholar 2014 Article (International Universities Power Engineering Conference)
Assessing network architectures for the more electric engine and aircraft
- Semantic Scholar 2014 Article (Risk Analysis)
Analysis of the Effects of Communication and Surveillance Facility Service Outages on Traffic Separations
Evidence is provided that unscheduled service outages of air traffic management facilities are associated with lost or reduced traffic separations and thus can be considered precursors to hazardous loss of separation eve…
- DTIC (Defense Technical Information Center) 2014 DTIC DTIC technical report
Spatial Disorientation Countermeasures in Tactical Aviation
US Navy aerospace medicine evaluation of spatial disorientation countermeasures — Pensacola Spatial Disorientation Trainer outcomes + Coriolis illusion susceptibility.
- Semantic Scholar 2014 Article
Validation of New Technology Using Legacy Metrics: Examination of SURF-IA Alerting for Runway Incursion Incidents
Researcher: Robert Edward Joslin Title: VALIDATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGY USING LEGACY METRICS: EXAMINATION OF SURF-IA ALERTING FOR RUNWAY INCURSION INCIDENTS Institution: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Degree: Doctor o…
- arXiv 2014 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Real-Time First Order Guidance Strategies for Trajectory Optimization in UAVs by Utilizing Wind Energy
This paper presents real-time guidance strategies for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can be used to enhance their flight endurance by utilizing {\sl insitu} measurements of wind speeds and wind gradients.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2014 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Kinematic Effects in Large Transport Aircraft
The control of an aircraft relies on sensory feedback. It follows that any aspect that could create a situation where that feedback is faulty can lead to unintended outcomes.