Concept Validation Experiment for Small Aircraft Transportation System Higher-Volume Operations

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria C. Consiglio ◽  
Daniel M. Williams ◽  
Jennifer L. Murdoch ◽  
Catherine A. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Transportation System ◽  
Validation Experiment ◽  
Concept Validation ◽  
Small Aircraft

Small Aircraft Transportation System, Higher Volume Operations Concept and Research Summary

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1825-1834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian T. Baxley ◽  
Daniel Williams ◽  
Maria Consiglio ◽  
Cathy Adams ◽  
Terrence Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Transportation System ◽  
Small Aircraft

Less-skilled pilot decision support

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 790-802
Author(s):  
Jozsef Rohacs ◽  
Istvan Jankovics ◽  
Daniel Rohacs
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Total System ◽  
Workload Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Subjective Analysis ◽  
Supporting System ◽  
Safety Aspects ◽  
Concept Validation ◽  
Small Aircraft

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to overview the systems and their elements developing for supporting the less-skilled pi-lots.Design/methodology/approachSeveral European (like EPATS, SAT-Rdmp, Pplane, Esposa, Clean Sky2) and national projects (NASA SATS, Hungarian SafeFly) develop the personal/small aircraft and personal/small aircraft transportation systems. The projects had analysed the safety aspects, too, and they underlined the aircraft will be controlled by so-called less-skilled pilots (owners, renters), having less experiences. The paper defines the cross-connected controls, introduces the methods of subjective analysis in pilot decision processes, improves the pilot workload model, defines the possible workload management and describes the developing pilot decision support system.FindingsAnalysing the personal/small aircraft safety aspects, a unique and important safety problem induced by less-skilled pilots has been identified. The considerable simplification of the air-craft control system, supporting the pilot subjective decisions and introducing the pilot work-load management, may eliminate this problem.Research limitations/implicationsOnly the system elements have been used in concept validation tests.Practical implicationsThe developing pilot supporting system in its general form has on - board and ground sub-systems, too, except a series of elements integrated into the pilot cockpit environment and control system. Several system elements (sensors, integrated controls, etc.) might be implement now, but the total system need further studies. The subjective decision process needs further development of the methodology and concept validation.Social implicationsThe system may catalyse the society acceptance of the personal aircraft and their safer piloting, applicability.Originality/valueThe paper introduces an original supporting system for less-skilled pilots.

Small Aircraft Transportation System Higher Volume Operations Flight Experiment

2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 1613-1620
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Williams ◽  
Jennifer L. Murdoch ◽  
Catherine H. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Transportation System ◽  
Flight Experiment ◽  
Small Aircraft

Preliminary Assessment of Lower Landing Minima Capabilities in the Small Aircraft Transportation System Program

2005 ◽  
Vol 1915 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Yue Xu ◽  
Antonio A. Trani ◽  
Hojong Baik
Keyword(s):  
Transportation System ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
Glide Path ◽  
Critical Object ◽  
Obstacle Analysis ◽  
System Program ◽  
Small Aircraft

A preliminary assessment is presented of the required lower landing minima (LLM) capabilities needed to support the Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) Program. The goal of this analysis is to understand the number of potentially challenged SATS airports and to identify methods to remove obstacles by using technology solutions. Four obstacle removal methods are considered to assess the challenges faced by the SATS Program in providing LLM capabilities to 3,416 U.S. airports. Two views of runway obstacle analysis are presented: a critical object analysis and a detailed multiobject analysis that includes terrain information. A comparison is made between decision altitudes (DAs) derived by approach lighting infrastructure and glide path angle thresholds and DA values considering other airport characteristics such as terrain. A detailed case study is presented to compare the single critical object analysis with the more detailed multiobject analysis, which was performed for Blacksburg Airport, in Virginia.

Integrated Model for Studying Small Aircraft Transportation System

2003 ◽  
Vol 1850 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio A. Trani ◽  
Hojong Baik ◽  
Howard Swingle ◽  
Senanu Ashiabor
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Systems Dynamics ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Complete Life Cycle ◽  
Transportation Modeling ◽  
Langley Research Center ◽  
Intercity Transportation ◽  
Small Aircraft

A systems engineering methodology was used to study the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) concept as a feasible mode of transportation. The proposed approach employs a multistep intercity transportation planning process executed inside a Systems Dynamics model. Doing so permits a better understanding of SATS impacts to society over time. The approach is viewed as an extension to traditional intercity transport models through the introduction of explicit demand–supply causal links of the proposed SATS over the complete life cycle of the program. The modeling framework discussed is currently being used by the Virginia SATS Alliance to quantify possible impacts of the SATS program for NASA’s Langley Research Center. There is discussion of some of the modeling efforts carried out so far and of some of the transportation modeling challenges facing the SATS program ahead.

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