Wildlife incidents with aircraft cost the United States (U.S.) civil aviation industry >US$1.4 billion in estimated damages and loss of revenue from 1990 to 2009. Although terrestrial mammals represented only 2.3 % of wildlife incidents, damage to aircraft occurred in 59 % of mammal incidents. We examined mammal incidents (excluding bats) at all airports in the Federal Aviation Administration (...

Wildlife-aircraft collisions (wildlife strikes) have increased nationally over the past 22 years; denoted in the National Wildlife Strike Database that has been maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) since 1990. Increasing wildlife populations and air traffic coupled with quieter, faster aircraft create a significant risk to aviation safety; the cost to the civil aviation indus...

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With the prevalent use of visual interfaces and the increasing demand to display more information, information complexity in human-computer interfaces becomes a major concern for technology designers. Complex interfaces affect the effectiveness, efficiency, and even the operational safety of a system. Previously, researchers at the Federal Aviation Administration developed two questionnaires to...

As part of the ongoing Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Loran evaluation, the system is being assessed for its ability to back up GPS through all phases of flight. While the focus has mainly been on supporting non precision approach (NPA), such as RNP 0.3, efforts have also been made to examine Loran for enroute RNP 1.0 operations. RNP 1.0 is important as it is the minimum requirement for ...

We have previously described a computational approach to modeling human performance, built using the Apex architecture [1],in which extended behavioral sequences are automatically constructed from simpler CPMGOMS templates [2]. Here we report on efforts to extend that method to the more complex domain of air traffic control operations. We describe the overall approach and our initial analysis o...

Teh aim of dis work is to provide insight into alcohol-kerosene fuels and their promising use as an alternative in commercial aviation. A detailed chemical and physical experimental analysis is drawn, wif a focus on teh advantage of teh isopropanol-kerosene blend. Despite reported beneficial isopropanol effects on retarding fuel combustion, knocking prevention, and much lower emissions, few...