Few developers of commercial aviation software products are using object-oriented technology (OOT), despite its popularity in some other industries. Safety concerns about using OOT in critical applications, uncertainty about how to comply with regulatory requirements, and basic conservatism within the aviation community have been factors behind this caution. The Federal Aviation Administration ...

This paper reviews research conducted in the Texas A&M University Flight Simulation Laboratory on intelligent systems for general aviation. Over the last eight years several intelligent cockpit systems and pilot decision-aiding tools have been created and developed for general aviation aircraft, using fix-based flight simulation validation and evaluation. This paper reviews these results, and a...

1. Introduction Active remote sensors are turning into indispensible tools for aviation. Especially, coherent lidar systems which can detect atmospheric aviation hazards such as wake-vortices, air drafts, wind shear and turbulence have received wide interest. Such lidars have been deployed with increasing numbers at airports and research facilities around the world. Some of the common aviation ...

The basic science of turbulence has been known for many years, yet the knowledge has hardly become a part of operational aviation turbulence forecasting. The history of turbulence forecasting, which has primarily concentrated at elevations above the boundary layer, has been an amalgamation of empirical rules of thumb and forecaster intuition, not of strong theory and conceptual models. Turbulen...

Human error has been implicated in 70 to 80% of all civil and military aviation accidents. Yet, most accident reporting systems are not designed around any theoretical framework of human error. As a result, most accident databases are not conducive to a traditional human error analysis, making the identification of intervention strategies onerous. What is required is a general human error frame...

Aviation is one of the critical modes of our national transportation system. As such, it is essential that new technologies be continually developed to ensure that a safe mode of transportation becomes even safer in the future. The NASA Aviation Safety Program (AvSP) is managing the development of new technologies and interventions aimed at reducing the fatal aviation accident rate by a factor ...

Lead is currently banned from most gasoline because it is harmful to humans. While aviation gasoline still contains lead, this may change in the near future due to increased regulation in the interest of public safety. This has created a research opportunity to verify that new unleaded aviation fuels are compatible with equipment currently in use. The Cooperative Fuels Research (CFR) engine is ...

Communications systems have always been a critical element in aviation. Until recently, nearly all communications between the ground and aircraft have been based on analog voice technology. But the future of global aviation requires a more sophisticated "information infrastructure" which not only provides more and better communications, but integrates the key information functions (communicatio...

I T IS A N H O N O R and privilege to address this great congress of aviation medicine as a representative of both the Aero Medical Association and the United States Air Force. I bring to you the warm felicitations of both organizations and their best wishes for a most successful meeting. The past of aviation medicine and its progress to the realities of space travel .cannot properly be discuss...