TY - JOUR
T1 - Training pilots for collision avoidance within a realistic operating context
AU - Fleming, Elizabeth S.
AU - Pritchett, Amy R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by a cooperative agreement (DTFAWA-10-C-00084) with the Federal Aviation Administration Human Factors Research and Engineering Group, with Tom McCloy acting as Technical Manager. The first author is supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under grant no. DGE-0644493. The authors are grateful for the time of the pilots who assisted, specifically the 34 pilots who acted as participants. Additionally, the authors would like to acknowledge Vlad Popescu, William Cleveland, Dhruv Thaakar, Henry Tran, Jack Ridderhof, Alyssa Whitlock, and Justin Mullins for their assistance in running the experiment. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the time and expertise provided by Wes Olson of Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as a Technical Consultant.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The traffic alert and collision avoidance system has been implemented to reduce the number of midair collisions. Pilot compliance to traffic alert and collision avoidance system resolution advisories is mandated unless the pilot feels it would conflict with safety. Thus, pilots' responses hinge on their assessment of the situation during the time period leading up to and spanning a traffic alert and collision avoidance system resolution advisory, including assessment of cues that conflict with traffic alert and collision avoidance system guidance. However, current training programs generally do not incorporate a realistic operating context and represent traffic alert and collision avoidance system advisories as isolated events. Furthermore, in the presence of conflicting traffic alert and collision avoidance system guidance and traffic information, pilots have reported confusion about what traffic alert and collision avoidance system advised, as well as disagreement with and noncompliance to resolution advisories. This paper discusses a traffic alert and collision avoidance system training program within a realistic operating context; in this case, the training used an integrated flight-deck/air-traffic-control simulator to create contexts where pilots receive conflicting information from the traffic alert and collision avoidance system and air traffic control. This training significantly impacted pilot responses to resolution advisories, including an increase in compliance when presented conflicting information.
AB - The traffic alert and collision avoidance system has been implemented to reduce the number of midair collisions. Pilot compliance to traffic alert and collision avoidance system resolution advisories is mandated unless the pilot feels it would conflict with safety. Thus, pilots' responses hinge on their assessment of the situation during the time period leading up to and spanning a traffic alert and collision avoidance system resolution advisory, including assessment of cues that conflict with traffic alert and collision avoidance system guidance. However, current training programs generally do not incorporate a realistic operating context and represent traffic alert and collision avoidance system advisories as isolated events. Furthermore, in the presence of conflicting traffic alert and collision avoidance system guidance and traffic information, pilots have reported confusion about what traffic alert and collision avoidance system advised, as well as disagreement with and noncompliance to resolution advisories. This paper discusses a traffic alert and collision avoidance system training program within a realistic operating context; in this case, the training used an integrated flight-deck/air-traffic-control simulator to create contexts where pilots receive conflicting information from the traffic alert and collision avoidance system and air traffic control. This training significantly impacted pilot responses to resolution advisories, including an increase in compliance when presented conflicting information.
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U2 - 10.2514/1.I010291
DO - 10.2514/1.I010291
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84940758349
SN - 1542-9423
VL - 12
SP - 467
EP - 475
JO - Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
JF - Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
IS - 7
ER -