scholarly journals Aviation Safety in South Sudan

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (08) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayiei Garang Deng Ayiei ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Aviation Safety ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Poor Compliance ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Technical Failure ◽  
Aircraft Accidents ◽  
Aviation Accidents ◽  
Pilot Error

Africa contributes only 3.9% in air traffic, but records 19% of aviation accidents, in terms of fatalities. High accident rates are attributed to poor compliance with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs). This study analyzed the prevalence of aircraft accidents in the youngest African country, South Sudan, which obtained independence in July 9, 2011. The quantitative study examined aviation accident databases to determine the number of aircraft accidents in South Sudan, the aircraft manufacturers and aircraft models, number of fatalities, and causes of accidents, categorized as pilot error, technical failure, air traffic control, or weather-related events. The accidents were collected from the Aviation Safety Network (ASN) database, which is maintained by the Flight Safety Foundation. A total of 83 accident cases were examined, with 32 satisfying the criteria of accidents covering the July 2011 to May 2021 period. The findings show that Antonov aircrafts account for a majority of the accidents (31.25%), followed by Cessna (21.88%) and LET (15.63%). The 32 aircrafts involved in the accidents were carrying 378 occupants, 72 occupants died, representing a fatality rate of 19.5%. Antonov (66.67%) and LET (27.7%) contributed the greatest fatalities. In terms of accident causes, technical failures (46.9%) and pilot errors (43.8%) were the most dominant causes. Weather-related conditions only contributed to 9.4% of all the cases investigated. These results show that South Sudan continues to suffer from poor aviation infrastructure, poor compliance to internationally recognized SARPs.

Air Transport Flight Program Performance of Navigation Based on the Continuous Automatic Control and Monitoring

2014 ◽  
Vol 575 ◽  
pp. 775-780
Author(s):  
Jin Huang
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Aviation Safety ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Air Space ◽  
Traffic Control System ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Research And Design

With increasing air traffic flow, air traffic control system of Chinese to ensure aviation safety is facing new challenges. Without air space enlargement, air traffic is more and more crowded, to prevent aircraft collided with the aircraft, to prevent the aircraft and ground obstructions, ensuring air traffic is an important issue China civil aviation, and it is also the main task of ATC system. In this paper, based on the research and design of the airport PBN flight procedures, according to the operation of the program, the problem of poor runway CDA, approach procedure was optimized using the fusion point program approach, the ATSAB direction, improve the operation effect of CDA.

scholarly journals Using the James Reason Theory in Air Events Study

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Klich Edmund
Keyword(s):  
Human Error ◽  
Organizational Management ◽  
Corrective Action ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Aircraft Accidents ◽  
Aviation Accidents ◽  
Pilot Error ◽  
Investigation Process ◽  
Events Study ◽  
Main Factor

Using the James Reason Theory in Air Events Study The paper describes using the James Reason model in investigation aircraft accidents. According to statistic human error is the main factor both military and civil aviation accidents. The causes of the accidents are usually referred as "pilot error". The James Reason model used during the investigation process allows to find other failures than crew unsafe acts like: preconditions for unsafe acts, unsafe supervision and/or organizational (management) influence. That findings allow the investigators take corrective action not only to mishap crew but to the whole system including procedures, training, regulations and even aviation law etc"

Pilot Disorientation as the Most Frequent Cause of Fatal, Weather-Related Accidents in UK Civil and General Aviation

1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-240
Author(s):  
William S. Pike
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
General Aviation ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Aviation Accidents ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Made In

Over 20 years ago, collision with high ground was identified as being the single most significant cause of fatalities among air travellers worldwide (Smith, 1968), and some human factors responsible were highlighted. The three factors most commonly found to be present during major civil aviation accidents were: (i) pilot's visual flight in instrument meterological conditions (IMC); (ii) navigational error by the crew and'; (iii) pilot's failure to react correctly to new circumstances resulting from air traffic control (ATC) instructions or advice – sometimes made in a language foreign to that of the aircrew. The latter factor will be tested here to see if it still applies to recent cases in the UK.

The Economics of Air Traffic Control

1980 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
Angus Hislop
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Department Of Transportation ◽  
Private Industry ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Uk

This paper is based mainly on a study carried out in 1976/7 for the UK Department of Industry into the long-term development of air traffic control systems in Europe by a team drawn from the Civil Aviation Authority, the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment and private industry, in which Coopers and Lybrand provided the economic expertise.Until the early 1970s, air traffic control was almost completely neglected by air transport economists. Economists contributed to the planning of airports and airline operations but not to the third facet of the air transport system. However, in 1970–1, in conjunction with a programme of expansion and improvement of the country's airports and airways, the US Department of Transportation launched a major study of the airport and airways system. This was designed to establish an equitable charging policy between the different categories of user but in the event its recommendations in this area have only recently begun to be followed.

The Effect of Air Traffic Control Policy on the Growth of Aviation

1968 ◽  
Vol 72 (691) ◽  
pp. 647-654
Author(s):  
H. C. N. Goodhart
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
The State ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
The Usa

Much of what I am going to say is opinion and many will find it controversial. It is therefore essential to start off from a firm and incontrovertible basis of fact. By this means it should be possible to narrow down the controversy considerably. Table I represents the state of aviation in this country in comparison with the USA. These facts are confined to civil aviation since it is the growth of civil aviation that I am talking about.

Operational Research into Air Traffic Control

1949 ◽  
Vol 53 (466) ◽  
pp. 965-978 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Operational Research ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Traffic Pattern ◽  
Precise Knowledge ◽  
Effective System ◽  
Technical Interest

With the return of British civil aviation to normal operating conditions after the war it was found that several problems which had previously given little cause for concern had become acute. More especially, the increase in the volume of traffic, particularly under instrument flying conditions, together with certain indirect consequences of the greater sizes and weights of aircraft, had brought about greatly increased congestion around major airports, and there was, therefore, an urgent requirement for an effective system of close air traffic control to ensure the safety and rapid movement of the traffic.The Ministry of Civil Aviation immediately gave much attention to this problem of air traffic control, but at once found itself in serious difficulties on account of lack of sufficiently precise knowledge of the traffic and the traffic pattern. The then Controller of Technical and. Operational Services, Sir Conrad Collier, realised that the obtaining of the necessary data concerning air traffic control and other matters of technical interest was essentially a matter of operational research, and in 1947 a small operational research section was established which began work in the autumn of that year.

The Key Technology of the Application of MultiGen Creator / Vega Prime in Visual Simulation System of Civil Aviation Airport

2012 ◽  
Vol 263-266 ◽  
pp. 1796-1799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Wei Song
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Simulation System ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Visual Simulation ◽  
Operating Efficiency ◽  
Working Pressure ◽  
Air Traffic Controller ◽  
Multigen Creator

Visual simulation is the most important manifestation of virtual reality technology. Take a civil aviation airport as an example of visual simulation, based on the real-time, interactivity and realism of visual simulation system, we discuss Creator 3.0 in building three-dimensional scene of the civilian airport, and the development of visual simulation system based on Vega Prime. The simulation results show that it provides the basis for the safe and reliable in air traffic control, reducing the working pressure of the air traffic controller, improving the operating efficiency of the air traffic, and increasing the traffic flow of air and surface.

scholarly journals Improving the training of air traffic controllers: Opinions from instructors in Singapore

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Ng ◽  
Isaac Levi Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Just Culture ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Air Traffic Controllers ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Training Team

Air traffic controllers play a vital function with regard to ensuring the safety and efficiency of international civil aviation. Despite this, there is a lack of research addressing how air traffic controllers are trained. This paper collects opinions about the air traffic control (ATC) training programme in Singapore from a group of 30 instructors who were working within the aerodrome training team. Convenience sampling was used to recruit the participants and thematic analysis was used to identify key opinions. Significant advantages and disadvantages of the current training programme were identified, such as pre-training and simulator constraints. In addition to findings relating to the learning of required skill sets, interviews also highlighted the need for a just culture in the workplace and human factors training.

scholarly journals Improving the Reliability of the Information and Measurement System of Aviation Surveillance

2021 ◽  
Vol 2096 (1) ◽  
pp. 012073
Author(s):  
A V Eliseev
Keyword(s):  
Measurement System ◽  
Energy Method ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Surveillance Systems

Abstract It is shown that various sensors are used to ensure air traffic control in civil aviation, namely: primary and secondary radars, multilateration surveillance systems, automatic dependent surveillance systems of broadcast and contract types, multistatic radars. Based on the analysis of the main disadvantages of the considered systems, it was concluded that the use of multilateration aircraft surveillance systems (MLAT) is promising. The need to improve the reliability of MLAT is noted. The work proposes a method of structural and informational redundancy of MLAT based on the introduction of an additional receiver into its design. It allows to measure the distance to the aircraft using the energy method. The analysis of increasing the reliability of MLAT at various redundancy rates is carried out.

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