Background: Expert knowledge may compensate for age-related declines in basic cognitive and sensory-motor abilities in some skill domains. We investigated the influence of age and aviation expertise (indexed by Federal Aviation Administration pilot ratings) on longitudinal flight simulator performance. Methods: Over a 3-year period, 118 general aviation pilots aged 40 to 69 years were tested an...

FAA, USA Federal Aviation Authority; EASA, European Aviation Safety Agency Abstract Objective: To provide healthcare professionals with an insight into training in aviation and its possible transfer into surgery. Methods: From research online and into company archives, relevant publications and information were identified. Results: Current airline pilot training consists of two categories, basi...

range; see Lee et al. 2009). Aircraft emissions are expected to increase with projected growth in aviation and will likely result in enhanced environmental impacts unless scientif ically informed mitigation measures are implemented. Environmental protection is an important component of the U.S. Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen; information online at www.jpdo. gov/nextgen.asp)....

General Aviation (GA) demand forecast plays an important role in aviation management, planning and policy making. The objective of this paper is to develop an airport-level GA demand forecast model. The GA demand at an airport is modeled as a function of social-economic and demographic factors, the availability of supply factors, the competition from the commercial aviation, the number of based...

• Defense Medical Logistics Support System Data Warehouse Program • Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Financial and Accounting Service (DFAS) “Operation Mongoose” • DoD Computerized Executive Information System (CEIS) • Department of Homeland Security’s Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE) Program • Department of Transportation (DOT) Executive Rep...

Minutes after two hijacked airliners crashed into the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept.11, 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration stopped all flights from U.S. airports. It marked the first time that air traffic came to a halt nationwide. Soon after, a third plane crashed into the Pentagon, and a fourth plane thought to be headed for another target in Washington, D.C., crashed into ...

This paper discusses the service availability criteria that representatives of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Air Traffic Organization (ATO) have defined for air traffic control (ATC) air/ground (A/G) voice communications in the Gulf of Mexico. In order to evaluate these criteria, models that relate airspace coverage with the availability of ground-based communications systems had to...

G. I. Raab, A. G. Raab, Ufa State Aviation Technical University, Ufa, Russia V. G. Shibakov, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia The paper is devoted to the analysis of such an important factor as deformation behavior in the simple shear conditions. It is shown that non-monotonous character of material plastic flow exerts significant influence on the intensity of initial structure refinemen...

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is developing alternative navigation concepts to maintain operational capacity and efficiency even in the presence of a degradation of the Global Positioning System (GPS). One concept being studied for this alternate position navigation and timing (APNT) is a ground based passive ranging system. Such a system can achieve many benefits. It has few cap...

Distance measuring equipment (DME)/Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) has been serving aviation for approximately 60 years. It has been a primary navigation aid in the national airspace (NAS) for much of that time with its basic operations little changed since its inception. However, future airspace will demand greater navigation performance to support higher traffic levels and more efficient oper...