Download or read book Effects of Video Weather Training Products Web based Preflight Weather Briefing and Local Vs Non local Pilots on General Aviation Pilot Weather Knowledge and Flight Behavior Phase 2 written by U.s. Department of Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effects of video weather training products, web-based preflight weather briefing, and local vs. non-local pilots on general aviation pilot weather knowledge and flight behavior, Phase 2 /

Download or read book Effects of Video Weather Training Products Web based Preflight Weather Briefing and Local Vs Non local Pilots on General Aviation Pilot Weather Knowledge and Flight Behavior Phase I written by U.s. Department of Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effects of video weather training products, web-based preflight weather briefing, and local vs. non-local pilots on general aviation pilot weather knowledge and flight behavior, phase I /

Download or read book Effects of Video Weather Training Products Web Based Preflight Weather Briefing and Local Versus Non Local Pilots on General Aviation Pilot Weather Knowledge and Flight Behavior Phase 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research had two main phases. Phase 1 investigated three major questions, one of which was whether or not video weather training products could significantly affect general aviation (GA) pilot weather knowledge and flight behavior in marginal meteorological conditions. Fifty GA pilots took a general weather knowledge pre-test, followed by exposure to either one of two weather training videos (the Experimental groups) or to a video having nothing to do with weather (the Control group). They next took a post-test to measure knowledge gain induced by the training product. Finally, they planned for and flew a simulated flight mission through marginal weather from Amarillo, TX, to Albuquerque, NM. Multivariate modeling implied that a combination of higher pilot age, receiving either weather training product, and takeoff hesitancy could significantly, correctly predict 86.7% of diversions from deteriorating weather and 77.8% of full flight completions. The question then became whether or not this model would be robust over time. In the present study (Phase 2), after a time lapse of 3-4 months, 44 of the 50 original Phase 1 pilots returned for further testing. Again, they were tested for weather knowledge and flew a simulated flight mission similar to Phase 1's. No significant change in weather knowledge was evident from Phase 1 to 2, nor were any significant differences seen between the three treatment groups. Additionally, the 3-factor model of Phase 1 failed to significantly predict flight diversions or flight completions in Phase 2. The combined results of Phases 1 and 2 imply that the effects on weather knowledge and flight behavior of a single 90-minute training video seem minimal in comparison to the complexities of weather itself and flight into weather. This is consistent with intuition. Moreover, what small effects are produced seem to decay with None of this is unexpected. It merely means that weather is comple.

Download or read book Effects of Video Weather Training Products Web Based Preflight Weather Briefing and Local Versus Non Local Pilots on General Aviation Pilot Weather Knowledge and Flight Behavior Phase 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research has two main phases. Phase 1 investigated three major questions: 1) Do video weather training products significantly affect general aviation (GA) pilot weather knowledge and flight behavior in marginal meteorological conditions? 2) How are modern Web-based weather products used during GA preflight briefing? 3) Do local Oklahoma GA pilots differ appreciably from other pilots in either weather knowledge or weather-related flight behavior? Fifty GA pilots took a general weather knowledge pre-test, followed by exposure to either one of two weather training videos (the Experimental groups) or to a video having nothing to do with weather (the Control group). They next took a post-test to measure knowledge gain induced by the training product. Finally, they planned for, and flew, a simulated flight mission through marginal weather from Amarillo, TX, to Albuquerque, NM. Question 1: Few highly significant, direct effects were found for the two 90-minute video weather training products all by themselves. Follow-up multivariate modeling implied that a combination of higher pilot age, receiving either weather training product, and takeoff hesitancy could significantly, correctly predict 86.7% of diversions from deteriorating weather and 77.8% of full flight completions. However, we must conservatively conclude that weather knowledge and GA weather flying behavior are complex and unlikely to be profoundly changed by a single, brief training product. Phase 2 will address this issue. Question 2: The data-collecting emulation of www.aviationweather.gov suggested that mere time spent on preflight briefing was not a good predictor of either quality of preflight briefing or subsequent flight safety. Nonetheless, these data are just an opening look at what should eventually be a far more intensive study of modern weather briefing and its relation to flight safe.

Download or read book Effects of Video Weather Training Products Web based Preflight Weather Briefing and Local Vs Non local Pilots on General Aviation Pilot Weather Knowledge and Flight Behavior Phase I written by William Knecht and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This research has two main phases. Phase 1 investigated three major questions: 1) Do video weather training products significantly affect general aviation (GA) pilot weather knowledge and flight behavior in marginal meteorological conditions? 2) How are modern Web-based weather products used during GA preflight briefing? 3) Do local Oklahoma GA pilots differ appreciably from other pilots in either weather knowledge or weather-related flight behavior? Fifty GA pilots took a general weather knowledge pre-test, followed by exposure to either one of two weather training videos (the Experimental groups) or to a video having nothing to do with weather (the Control group). They next took a post-test to measure knowledge gain induced by the training product. Finally, they planned for, and flew, a simulated flight mission through marginal weather from Amarillo, TX, to Albuquerque, N.M."--Report documentation page.

Download or read book Effects of Video Weather Training Products Web based Preflight Weather Briefing and Local Vs Non local Pilots on General Aviation Pilot Weather Knowledge and Flight Behavior Phase 2 written by William Knecht and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Effects of video weather training products web based preflight weather briefing and local vs non local pilots on general aviation pilot weather knowledge and flight behavior phase 3 written by William Knecht and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The primary purpose of Phases 1 and 2 of this research was to test the effects of video weather training products on weather related risk-taking. During the investigation, two unexpected observations were made: (1) Despite specific instructions to fly visual-flight-rules-only (VFR), nine of 50 Phase 1 pilots spent more than 10 min in simulated instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), plus three of those nine repeated that behavior in Phase 2; (2) Whole-group (N=50) weather knowledge test scores were significantly lower (19%, p

Download or read book Effects of Video Weather Training Products Web based Preflight Weather Briefing and Local Versus Non local Pilots on General Aviation Pilot Weather Knowledge and Flight Behavior Phase 3 written by William Knecht and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because adaptive tests tend to be more efficient (shorter and more reliable) than fixed-item tests, this would free up more testing time for weather-related items, making sampling error much less of a problem."--Report documentation page.

Download or read book Testing Web based Preflight Weather Self briefing for General Aviation Pilots written by William Knecht and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Internet affords an increasingly capable, economical, and popular vehicle for preflight weather self-briefing. This research constitutes the first known experimental investigation of how modern Web-based weather products are actually being used by general aviation (GA) pilots. A data-gathering emulation of the National Weather Service Web site http://aviationweather.gov was written for use on a personal computer. Eighteen Web pages were created to display weather information, each page emulating a similar category of product shown by aviationweather.gov. This formed the primary weather briefing site for two similar, challenging weather scenarios subsequently flown by 50 GA pilots in simulated cross-country VFR flight. Two dependent variables were measured -- page views (which pages each pilot viewed) and page view duration (how long each page was viewed). Total briefing time was then calculated for each pilot by summing page view durations. A groupwise "dwell" index was also derived for each Web page by multiplying the group's page views times its median page view durations. A number of specific findings emerged from the data analysis. First, given a specific flight mission, we found that, as a group, GA pilots appeared significantly consistent over time in the kinds of information they sought out. However, the amount of time they spent examining that information seemed to vary over time, even given similar flight situations. Second, pilots seem to have favorite information sources (e.g., graphical prog charts, TAFs, NEXRAD, and satellite cloud images). We could expect those favorites to shift slightly, depending on the flight mission. Third, Web page design is potentially important. For example, pages not accessible from the top-level menu may be ignored or overlooked. These findings are important to weather information providers because the ability to display certain types of information -- and certain ways of displaying it -- are sure to give the knowledgeable provider an advantage over competitors. The key is to have highly informative pages that still remain easy to understand."--Report documentation page.

Download or read book An Analysis of Preflight Weather Briefings written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weather is often cited as a factor in general aviation (GA) accidents and mishaps. The type of weather information requested from, or provided by, automated flight service station (AFSS) specialists is dependent on weather conditions at the time the preflight briefing occurs. However, little is known about how this weather information is used by GA pilots. The purpose of this research was to document the types of AFSS weather information that GA pilots requested and received and how this information might influence flight planning and weather-based decisions. A content analysis was performed on 306 GA pilot telephone conversations with AFSS specialists who staffed the preflight position. Twenty-four hours of continuous recordings of one good, typical, and bad weather day at an AFSS in the New England, Northwest Mountain, and Southwest Region were obtained prior to the Federal Aviation Administration contracting out those services. The data show that more calls were made on days of bad weather than on days of good and typical weather within the vicinity serviced by the AFSS. Approximately 78% of the pilots requested a preflight briefing (they requested a standard weather briefing more often than any other), and about 15% declined a weather briefing when asked by the AFSS specialist. Of the pilot-requested preflight weather briefings, specialists relayed the following weather items: Weather synopsis, sky conditions (clouds), visibility, and weather conditions at the departure, en route, and destination point. When pilots declined preflight weather briefings, as they did in 15.4% of the calls (good weather 16.7%, typical weather 5.0%, bad weather 20.6%), AFSS still relayed weather synopsis and sky conditions (clouds) in addition to any other weather conditions that might prove to be significant during a flight.

Download or read book An Aviation Weather Preflight Decision Support Tool to Improve GA Pilots Preflight and Inflight Performance written by Jayde M. King and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Low hour, inexperienced General Aviation (GA) pilots account for the majority of weather-related incidents, which often result in fatalities. Previous research identifies poor preflight planning practices and a lack of aviation weather knowledge as key contributing factors to the high novice private pilot accident and fatality rate. Research invested into resolving these issues often attempt to introduce new inflight weather technology to assist pilots with weather avoidance. However, these interventions usually result in pilots using the information to strategically navigate closer to degraded weather conditions (Beringer & Ball, 2004; Burgess & Thomas, 2004). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a performance support tool for weather preflight (PWDST) on pilots’ preflight performance and inflight performance. Seventy-eight private pilots (Mage = 20.15, SD = 2.56) without instrument ratings were recruited from a Southeastern US university. Forty-one visual flight rule (VFR) private pilots were randomly assigned to the control group (no preflight decision tool) and 37 VFR private pilots were assigned to the experimental group (preflight decision tool). Participants performed a weather preflight and a simulated flight for one VFR into instrument meteorological conditions scenario (i.e., VFR to IMC). Results indicated that participants in the PWDST condition examined significantly more weather products and reported higher weather awareness following the preflight activities than did participants in the control group. Furthermore, results also indicated that participants in the PWDST condition spent significantly less time in IMC than participants in the control condition. Additionally, results revealed that preflight decision-making was predicted by preflight performance and inflight decision-making was predicted by pilots’ awareness of weather inflight."--Abstract.

Download or read book The Impact of Training on General Aviation Pilots Ability to Make Strategic Weather Related Decisions written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inadvertent flight into hazardous weather can have devastating results for general aviation pilots (NTSB, 2005; Goh and Wiegmann, 2001). In fact, weather is the leading cause of fatalities in general aviation. The purpose of this study was to determine if a graphical weather display combined with an instructional training paradigm could improve pilots' ability to maintain a safe flying distance from convective thunderstorm activity. Previous research suggested that giving pilots the ability to see accurately the weather they are flying in and around may tempt some pilots to try to fly through small breaks in the convective activity. Indeed, Beringer and Ball (2004) found that pilots using graphical weather could be classified into two types of users (tactical vs. strategic). Tactical users were those pilots who used the information to try and navigate through or very close to the hazardous weather. Strategic users were those pilots who used the graphical information to plan and maintain a safe distance (20 nautical miles or greater) from the storm. An instructional slide presentation based on the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM, 7-1-27) guidelines was developed with the intent of modifying the behavior of users classified as "tactical." Fifty-seven general aviation pilots were evaluated on a low-visibility visual flight rules (VFR) scenario where they encountered an encroaching thunderstorm traversing their flight plan. The pilots were separated into two groups, tactical or strategic users, according to how they responded to a simulated scenario of a VFR flight using a graphical weather display. Half of the pilots in each group then received training to see if it would decrease the incidence of tactical usage. Additionally, a control group was evaluated that flew the multifunction display without the graphical weather information.

Download or read book Controlling Pilot Error Weather written by Terry T. Lankford and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2001-06-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real-life pilot stories, valuable save-yourself techniques and an action agenda of preventive techniques to avoid risks.

Download or read book General Aviation Pilot s Guide to Preflight Weather Planning Weather Self briefings and Weather Decision Making written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book General Aviation Pilot s Guide to Preflight Weather Planning Weather Self briefings and Weather Decision Making written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Airport Safety and Standards and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Aviation Weather Manual written by Delia Colvin and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-22 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are a student pilot or a CFII or ATP, this book is for you. Most accidents were due to pilots flying into weather that was obvious hours before their flight. Here you'll learn the unique skill of the Preflight Weather Brief to quickly (in about 15 minutes) and accurately assess preflight weather risks.

Download or read book Understanding the Human Factors Associated with Visual Flight Rules Flight Into Instrumental Meteorological Conditions written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual Flight Rules (VFR) into Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) accidents are a major concern in the aviation industry. More than 70% of the fatal weather-related accidents involved General Aviation (GA) pilots operating under visual flight rules (VFR) that continued into IMC. The purpose of this study was to pair GA accident causal factors that had been classified with the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) categories and traditional demographic data in an effort to present a more complete picture of VFR flight into IMC accidents. To accomplish this, GA accidents associated with VFR flight into IMC were examined to determine if there were any causal factors that set these accidents apart from the rest of GA (RoGA) accidents. GA accident data (14 CFR Part 91) from 1990-2004 were analyzed. The dataset was divided into accidents that had VFR into IMC (VFR-IMC; N = 609) cited as a cause or factor versus the rest of the GA accidents (RoGA; N = 18, 528). Analyses were performed examining the human error associated with these accidents.