Delivery performance of conventional aircraft by terminal-area, time-based air traffic control: a real-time simulation evaluation

Original publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Division ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1990. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)65222699 Excerpt: ... pilotswhoweremotivatedandattentiveto ATC in-aircraft-crew questionnaire data were collected after structions.Anotherseriesof simulatedapproaches each simulated approach. wasflown. Thissecondsetof runswaslabeledthe " after-TIMER-briefingr " uns.TIMERoperationand 4.1 Piloted Simulation Performance acontrollerprocedurewsereconsistenftorbothbefore-r-n 4.1.1 Delivery-Time Precision at Runway eandafter-briefingruns.Somecrewsperformed4datke Threshold runsandothersperformed5 for a total of 37aft briefingdataruns. The followingdatawereta The runway delivery-time precision achievable duringtheexperiment: with conventional aircraft not equipped with a 4D FMS is a primary parameter of interest in this Runway-threshotldimeerror study. The cockpit / pilot airborne system perfor-Final-fixtimeerror mance was measured under crew-in-the-loop, real-DC-9 x, y, z position as a function of time istic full-workload conditions. Figures 18 and 19 Pilot's response time to ATC turn instructions show the results before and after pilot briefing, re-DC-9 bank angle during turns spectively, of the cockpit simulator delivery-time er-Captain's questionnaire rating rors at the runway threshold. The time errors are First officer's questionnaire rating defined as the difference in threshold crossing times Controller's final-turn message-delivery-time between the SLT and the recorded DC-9 simulator. error It should be noted that the TIMER SLT's are dy-In a human-in-the-loop experiment there is namic, and thus the errors are relative to the last SLT always the concern that the learning-curve used that occurs prior to the turn-to-final maneu-phenomenon will have an effect that is falsely ver. Under the experimental condi...