Assessing the Impact of Spacing Tolerance on Flight Crew Activity

Author(s):  
Isabelle Grimaud ◽  
Eric Hoffman ◽  
Laurence Rognin ◽  
Karim Zeghal ◽  
Nayen Pene
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2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-46
Author(s):  
Yu K Churilov ◽  
Yu B Moiseev ◽  
I I Richei

The impact of unfavorable factors of aviation flight causes a significant strain in the flight crew of the functional state of the body, including various parts of the immune system. To date, research on the problems of interaction between different parts of the immune system in flight personnel in the process of professional adaptation is practically absent. In this regard, a study was conducted of immunological reactivity according to calculated data from 100 pilots of fighter aircraft and 102 pilots of other types of aircraft. The data obtained indicate significant dissociation of the flight composition in the immune system and changes in its reactivity. Studies of immunological reactivity in terms of integral leukocyte indices seem promising and, in combination with other methods of clinical and functional diagnostics, will expand the possibilities of assessing the overall functional status of pilots in the process of medical examination.


Author(s):  
A. Achachi ◽  
D. Benatia

The ability for an aircraft to fly during a much extended period of time has become a key issue and a target of research, both in the domain of civilian aviation and unmanned aerial vehicles. This paper describes a new design and evaluating of solar wind aircraft with the objective to assess the impact of a new system design on overall flight crew performance. The required endurance is in the range of some hours in the case of law enforcement, border surveillance, forest fire fighting or power line inspection. However, other applications at high altitudes, such as geomatic operations for delivering geographic information, weather research and forecast, environmental monitoring, would require remaining airborne during days, weeks or even months. The design of GNSS non precision approach procedure for different airports is based on geomatic data.


Author(s):  
Oleksandr Andrienko ◽  
Mykola Huchenko ◽  
Volodymyr Zinchenko ◽  
Oleksandr Zhorniak

Urgency of the research. Flight safety is an actual practical issue which solving influences the future of Ukraine as a transport state. As a consequence of technical progress aviation technology is becoming more and more sophisticated and reliable. However, the intensity of the impact on a person caused by various adverse factors, including information overloads, is constantly increasing. Statistics show that up to 80% of accidents and disasters occur due to pilot errors. The reason for about 35 % of these errors is lack of professional training, and about 40% of the errors are caused by inexperience of the crew. Target setting. The cost of aircraft, crew training and the "price" of error increase simultaneously. Cost of professional training of helicopter crews on complex flight simulators is an order of magnitude lower than on real helicopters. Therefore, today the focus of increasing the safety of flights is to improve the level of flight training and flight experience via the use of flight simulators with a high level of information adequacy to a real helicopter. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. In order to ensure the possibility of the trained crew to obtain the appropriate official documents stating their professional training level, the simulator must be certified according to national and international requirements, i.e. the adequacy of its handling qualities to the appropriate qualities of a simulated helicopter must be guaranteed. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. The equipment allows simulating the conduct of the helicopter in all flight modes, including critical ones: control failure, landing in the mode of main lift rotor autorotation, etc., developing practical recommendations for the flight crew, as well as to train the flight crew to find ways out of emergencies. Receiving information about the flight mode, the parameters of the onboard systems, the external environment, etc., the crew envision the information flight model. The information model of the simulator should be as similar as possible to the information model of the real helicopter. Consequently, the basic components of the simulator are the imitation systems providing the influence of the information creating the adequate picture of the flight on sense organs of the crew, including eyesight – a visualization system, flight control equipment, etc.; hearing – a system of aviation noise simulation; vestibular apparatus – a motion generation system; tactile channel – a system for loading control levers. The research objective. The listed systems form the informational model of the simulator, which should be coordinated with the movement of the helicopter. A mathematical model of the helicopter movement dynamics and the models of the mentioned systems provide this coordination. To provide the operation of the complex flight simulator, nonlinear mathematical models of helicopter dynamics based on the modified discrete vortex method have been developed. The models describe the flow of the volumetric design of the propeller apparatus and allow simulating a real-time flight in different modes, including "post-stall" condition. The statement of basic materials. The principles and approaches to the qualification evaluation of complex flight helicopter simulators in accordance with the requirements of the EU (CS-FSTD (H)) and IKAO (Doc 9625) are analyzed. The performance capabilities of a complex full-flight Mi-171 helicopter simulator created by SPA "AVIA" are described. The necessity of certification of flight simulators in compliance with international standards is substantiated. The analysis of the validation procedure is performed. The structure and functioning of the software complex designed to automate validation tests are described. Conclusions. An algorithm for obtaining a conclusion on the test result for one of the tests is presented.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-51
Author(s):  
Yu. I. Blashko

Background: Analysis of aviation accident investigations indicates that one of the main causes of accidents is a decrease in the level of stress resistance of the crew during extreme flight situations, which in turn can lead to a crash. The study of the problem of the negative impact of stressors on the effective operation of the flight crew, indicates that there is a need to form stress resistance in future pilots of civil aviation in the training process. This quality will reduce the threat to flight safety due to human error. Purpose: To characterize publications that actualize the issues of professional stressors in the activities of civil aviation pilots, because their activities are constantly accompanied by many specific stressors, most of which are long-term. Materials and Methods: In the process of research general scientific methods were used – abstract-logical, theoretical generalization, comparison, analysis and synthesis, system analysis. Results: The problem of the impact of stress on the professional activities of pilots is considered, which in modern conditions becomes especially relevant, because the number of air traffic is growing every year. The main four types of general stress that occur in professional flying, as well as the consequences it leads to, are analyzed. Groups of stressors acting on pilots during professional activity are considered and analyzed. An explanation of the psychological mechanisms (aggression, irritability, dogmatism and frustration) that may be involved in trying to cope with a stressful situation. Conclusions: The practical importance for further research in improving the training of future pilots of civil aviation to reduce the impact of the human factor on flight safety was substantiated, as evidenced by the direct impact of stressors on flight safety and the number of extreme flight situations.


Author(s):  
James R. Comstock ◽  
Brian T. Baxley ◽  
Robert M. Norman ◽  
Kyle K. E. Ellis ◽  
Cathy A. Adams ◽  
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2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Comstock ◽  
Brian T. Baxley ◽  
Robert M. Norman ◽  
Kyle K. E. Ellis ◽  
Cathy A. Adams ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 97 (10) ◽  
pp. 887-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina P. Dyakovich ◽  
V. A. Pankov ◽  
P. V. Kazakova ◽  
M. V. Kuleshova ◽  
I. V. Tikhonova

Hygienic studies have shown in the cockpit of aircraft and helicopters of crew equivalent levels of sound and vibration in most cases to exceed the maximum permissible levels. There was an exhaustion of the labor process of flight crew members (FCM) due to the high intellectual, sensory, emotional loads caused by the elevated responsibility for safety. The assessment of working conditions of the flight crew can be attributed to their class 3.1-3.4 (harmful working conditions). The clinical and audiological picture showed hearing loss in all subjects to be chronic, bilateral, sensorineural type, slowly progressive, without general somatic pathology, which could lead to hearing loss. The excess of the total physical component of the health-related quality of life (HRQL) over the total psychological component was identified in FCM. The values of the mental health and life activity scores of HRQL were found to be lower than in the comparison group. Evaluation of the psychoemotional status of FCM revealed the adaptive type of attitude to the disease, the lack of social frustration and personality traits predisposing to the development of neurosis and reflecting neurotic changes. The further longitudinal studies are needed to clarify identified socio-psychological characteristics of patients and to develop effective measures of psychosocial and medical rehabilitation that improve the HRQL of the FCM affected by the impact of industrial noise.


2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. I. Bachkalo ◽  
V. I. Zolotykh

According to the official statistics, the reasons of the majority of air incidents which have happened to state aircraft are caused by displays of so-called human factor of the aviation specialists participating in flights operation, as a rule, by negative displays of personal factor of the flight crew during preparation and performance of the flight task. At the same time, the record of “human factor” effect on the security of the aviation system is fragmentary and doesn’t have systematic basis nowadays. This is the factor which prevents the application of systematic approach to the problem of human factor impact on flight safety. In this regard, in order to reduce the impact of personal factor on the safety of the upcoming flight it is necessary to estimate it in terms of quantity. The solution of this task will require defining a number of the most essential personal safety indicators of the pilot, before the upcoming flight and determine the amount of each specific one. But the indicators of pilot’s personal factor potential threat to the safety of the upcoming flight are among the causal phenomena, which signs are not amenable to accurate quantitative estimation. Therefore, the greatest difficulty is in determination of the weight fraction of each hazard indicator according to “personal factor” of the pilot. In order to find solution to this problem, it is necessary to have an evaluation mechanism which will allow to assess the degree of influence of the phenomena on the object of their impact, the signs, which cannot be accurately quantified. Due to the lack of assessment tools known to the authors, which fully meet the stated requirements and allow to solve the problem, the authors developed a new method which enables to quantify the impact of the related phenomena on the subject of the study that do not have numerical expressions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzana Zgodavová ◽  
Róbert Rozenberg ◽  
Stanislav Szabo ◽  
Jozef Sabo
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