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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"instrument flight"”.
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Increasing Flexibility in the Design and Operation of Instrument Flight Procedures
Instrument Flight Procedures determine aircraft departure and arrival trajectories in terminal airspaces. While their main objective is to ensure safe aircraft navigation, flight procedures also have a significant effect on the capacity, efficiency, access, and noise characteristics of airspaces by …
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Distance Learning for Instrument Flight: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Virtual Mentor
<p>PC-based flight simulators are sometimes used as an alternative to traditional forms of instrument training. This type of training typically requires an instructor to be present with the student in order to facilitate training. Flight instructors play many important roles in aviation training, …
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The Effect of Whole and Part-Task Training and Feedback during Simulated Instrument Flight Training
… effective method for training novice pilot’s instrument flight procedures has not been well investigated. Part-task scenarios condition and a whole task scenarios condition, both with different levels of feedback were compared in a between group study of novice pilots learning a 737 instrument …
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Active Noise Reduction Versus Passive Designs in Communication Headsets: Speech Intelligibility and Pilot Performance Effects in an Instrument Flight Simulation
… pilot's performance inside the cockpit. Eight instrument-rated pilot participants flew through different flight tasks of varying levels and types of workload embedded in four 3.5 hour flight scenarios while wearing four different headsets. The 3.5 hours were considered long duration due the …
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A Case Study: Third Party Performance-Based Navigation Instrument Flight Procedure Design Regulations at the Federal Aviation Administration, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia, and the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
<p>The Instrument Flight Procedure (IFP) [A listing of all acronyms and definitions is provided in Appendix A] is an essential component to the aviation system. Every day and during every flight, thousands of aircraft around the world are flying instrument departure, arrival, or approach procedures …
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The Search for the Opto-Kinetic Cervical Reflex and Reduced Roll Reversals in Pilots Viewing a 3-D Perspective Display
<p>Pilots using conventional instrumentation can suffer spatial disorientation (SD) when unexpectedly forced to transition from visual flight to instrument flight during roll maneuvers. This simulator study was conducted to see if a 3-D perspective display could prevent this form of spatial …
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An Evaluation of Personal Computer-Based Aviation Flight Instruction
… transfer effectiveness was found on introductory instrument flight maneuvers. There was a significant airplane flight time savings to final certification in the experimental group. In all cases, there was positive correlation between student's and instructor's attitudes towards the use of the …
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The Effect of an Unconscious Auditory Stimulus on Pilot Performance under Varying Instrument Flying Conditions
… to establish avenues by which performance on the flightdeck can be enhanced under conditions of distress. The purpose of this study was to examine whether an unconscious auditory stimulus (UAS) could enhance pilot performance under varying instrument flight (IFR) conditions on the aircraft …
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The Effects of a Pathway-in-the-Sky Display on Performance of a Two Axis Tracking Task by Instrument Rated Pilots
… efficient, can be made even more so by employing instrument displays which are potentially more intuitive than existing displays. A low fidelity flight simulator was used to conduct an experiment comparing the performance of twenty-four instrument rated pilot subjects on a two axis tracking task …
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A computational approach to display layout analysis
… Six pilots in each of eight conditions flew an instrument flight simulation of a light fixed-wing aircraft, performing various flight control and systems monitoring tasks. Both qualitative (subjective) and computational (objective) assessments were made as to the adherence of each display …
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An Error-Dependent Model of Instrument-Scanning Behavior in Commercial Airline Pilots
… data to evaluate various aspects of pilot instrument scanning behavior. Although Senders' work indicated that link values and transitional probabilities could be accurately predicted using a random sampling process, several investigators have recently suggested that pilot scanning behavior …
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Behavioral Traps in Flight Crew-Related 14 CFR Part 121 Airline Accidents
… were: Loss of Situational Awareness; Neglect of Flight Planning, Preflight Inspections and Checklists; Peer Pressure; Get-There-Itis; and Unauthorized Descent Below an Instrument Flight Rule (IFR) Altitude. The purpose of this dissertation was to study the nature of their occurrence in the …
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Factors That Influence Pilot Usage of Flight Following
… most of which occur in day time VFR conditions. Flight following, a free service to VFR aircraft, is a tool to help pilots with collision avoidance. This study used an interview process to investigate factors that influence pilot usage of flight following. The study was able to use a quantitative …
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Comparing capacities and delays at major European and American airports
… transport systems must satisfy the demand for flights while maintaining a high level of service and safety. For airports, which have limited capacities, policy-makers must compromise between maximizing the number of flights served and avoiding excessive delays. Differences between policies …
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Examination of Runway Occupancy Times for General Aviation Aircraft
… The first factor is the difference between Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) aircraft and Visual Flight Rules (VFR) aircraft. The second factor of the study deals with the influence of aircraft type on runway occupancy times. This second factor looks at the runway occupancy time with respect to …
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Multi-Method Approach to Understand Pilot Performance in a Sociotechnical Aviation System
… of pilots performing a landing approach (both instrument and visual) with a Cessna 172 to the Roanoke Regional Airport (ROA) was described and analyzed. In the field study, data collection was guided by an integrative method based on macroergonomics (ME) and distributed cognition (DC), allowing …
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Prediction of Severity of Aviation Landing Accidents Using Support Vector Machine Models
… within the United States with at least one instrument approach procedure. The dataset was gathered from a combination of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) accident database, the NTSB accident reports, and the FAA’s Instrument Flight Procedure Gateway website. Four SVM models …
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ADS-B benefits to general aviation and barriers to implementation
… to increase airport acceptance rates in Instrument Flight weather and thus providing benefit to GA. However, in addition to providing surveillance, additional ATC procedures need to be developed to take advantage of such ADS-B surveillance. The new procedures would allow ATC to remain in …