Relationship of Air Traffic Control Specialist Age to En Route Operational Errors

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Broach ◽  
David J. Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Operational Errors ◽  
Relationship Of

Analysis of Operational Errors and Workload in Air Traffic Control

1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (17) ◽  
pp. 1321-1325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Redding
Keyword(s):  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Task Analysis ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Cognitive Task ◽  
Federal Aviation Administration ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Performance Tasks ◽  
Operational Errors

The Federal Aviation Administration has embarked on a major curriculum redesign effort to improve the training of en route air traffic controllers. Included in this effort was a cognitive task analysis. One component of the task analysis was an analysis of operational errors, to obtain insights into cognitive-perceptual factors contributing to controller decisionmaking error. The data suggest that a failure to maintain situation awareness is the primary cause of controller error. These results highlight the importance of the controller task “maintain situation awareness”, and are consistent with the findings of the other analyses. An approach for training situation awareness skills is presented in relation to models of expertise developed from other analyses: an expert mental model of air traffic control, and a task decomposition listing thirteen primary controller tasks. The findings and training paridigm have implications for training other complex high-performance tasks performed in a real-time, multi-tasking environment.

Attention Distribution and Situation Awareness in Air Traffic Control

1996 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mica R. Endsley ◽  
Mark D. Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Interesting Pattern ◽  
Processing Information ◽  
Operational Errors ◽  
The Way

A study was conducted to investigate the way in which controllers deploy their attention in processing information in en route air traffic control scenarios. Actual air traffic control scenarios in which operational errors occurred were re-created using SATORI and displayed to twenty active air traffic control specialists. SAGAT was used to measure the subjects' ongoing understanding of the scenarios along pertinent situation awareness requirements. The data revealed an interesting pattern of attention distribution in processing the displays that can be linked to prior findings regarding operational errors in air traffic control.

Terrain Clearance Problems during Climb and Descent under Air Traffic Control

1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-261
Author(s):  
T. Freer
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Aircraft Navigation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Progressive changes in the relationship of aircraft navigation and Air Traffic Control have produced a disturbing discrepancy between terrain clearance theory and practice. In theory, terrain clearance is assured by the aircraft adhering to certain specific and well-known traditional techniques; but in practice these are now often allowed to go by default, due to pressure of the A.T.C. environment. The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the exact nature of the problem and to suggest that clarification is overdue.

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