Assessment of Pilotage Error in Airborne Area Navigation Procedures.

Abstract

In 1969, by specifically including 'pilotage error' in the error budget for area navigation system certification, the Federal Aviation Administration legally attached economic premiums and penalties to human as well as equipment performance in man-machine system design. To establish the accuracy of use and freedom from pilot blunders associated with systems employing various configurations of displays and controls requires both simulator and flight experimentation. An automatically adaptive cockpit side task provides a saturing level of pilot workload and allows the sensitive, orderly, and statistically reliable measurement of a pilot's residual attention as a common metric for area navigation system assessment. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0754214

Entities

People

  • Stanley N. Roscoe

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Airborne
  • Errors
  • Human-Machine Systems
  • Load Monitoring
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Navigational Equipment
  • Performance Tests
  • Residuals
  • Simulators
  • Workload

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Government and Public Administration Law.