Quantifying Pilot Contribution to Flight Safety During Hydraulic Systems Failure
Quantifying Pilot Contribution to Flight Safety During Hydraulic Systems Failure
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Abstract Accident statistics cite the flight crew as a causal factor in over 60% of large transport aircraft fatal accidents. Yet, a well-trained and well-qualified pilot is acknowledged as the critical center point of aircraft systems safety and an integral safety component of the entire commercial aviation system. The latter statement, while generally accepted, cannot be verified because little or no quantitative data exists on how and how many accidents/incidents are averted by crew actions. A joint NASA/FAA high-fidelity motion-base human-in-the-loop test was conducted using a Level D certified Boeing 737-800 simulator to evaluate the pilot’s contribution to safety-of-flight during routine air carrier flight operations and in response to aircraft system failures. To quantify the human’s contribution, crew complement (two-crew, reduced crew, single pilot) was used as the independent variable in a between-subjects design. This paper details the crew’s actions, including decision-making, and responses while dealing with a hydraulic systems leak.
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Quantifying Pilot Contribution to Flight Safety During Hydraulic Systems Failure
2017-06-24
12 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Flight crew error , Aviation Safety , Increasingly autonomous systems , Automation , Crew complement , Reduced crew operations , Hydraulic system Engineering , Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering , User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction , Robotics and Automation , Computational Intelligence