Download or read book General Aviation Pilot s Guide Preflight Planning Weather Self Briefings and Weather Decision Making written by Federal Aviation Administration and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is intended to help general aviation (GA) pilots, especially those with relatively little weather-flying experience, develop skills in obtaining appropriate weather information, interpreting the data in the context of a specific flight, and applying the information and analysis to make safe weather flying decisions. It has been developed with assistance and contributions from a number of weather experts, aviation researchers, air traffic controllers, and general aviation instructors and pilots. Special thanks are due to Dr. Dennis Beringer and Dr. William Knecht of the FAA's Civil Aviation Medical Institute (CAMI); Dr. Michael Crognale, Department of Psychology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Nevada/Reno; Dr. Douglas Wiegmann, Institute of Aviation, University of Illinois; Dr. B.L. Beard and Colleen Geven of the NASA Ames Research Center; Dr. Paul Craig, Middle Tennessee State University; Paul Fiduccia, Small Aircraft Manufacturers Association; Max Trescott, SJFlight; Arlynn McMahon, Aero-Tech Inc.; Roger Sharp, Cessna Pilot Centers; Anthony Werner and Jim Mowery, Jeppesen-Sanderson; Howard Stoodley, Manassas Aviation Center; Dan Hoefert; Lawrence Cole, Human Factors Research and Engineering Scientific and Technical Advisor, FAA; Ron Galbraith, FAA Air Traffic Controller, Denver ARTCC; Michael Lenz, FAA General Aviation Certification and Operations Branch, Christine Soucy, FAA Office of Accident Investigation; Dr. Rich Adams, Engineering Psychologist, FAA Flight Standard Service; and Dr. William K. Krebs, Human Factors Research and Engineering Scientific and Technical Advisor, FAA.

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 Federal Aviation Federal Aviation Administration and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Color Version! Latest versions as of 2019** This guide is intended to help general aviation (GA) pilots, especially those with relatively little weather flying experience, develop skills in obtaining appropriate weather information, interpreting the data in the context of a specific flight, and applying the information and analysis to make safe weather flying decisions. It has been developed with assistance and contributions from a number of weather experts, aviation researchers, air traffic controllers, and general aviation instructors and pilots. Special thanks are due to Dr. Dennis Beringer and Dr. William Knecht of the FAA's Civil Aviation Medical Institute (CAMI); Dr. Michael Crognale, Department of Psychology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Nevada/Reno; Dr. Douglas Wiegmann, Institute of Aviation, University of Illinois; Dr. B.L. Beard and Colleen Geven of the NASA Ames Research Center; Dr. Paul Craig, Middle Tennessee State University; Paul Fiduccia, Small Aircraft Manufacturers Association; Max Trescott, SJFlight; Arlynn McMahon, Aero-Tech Inc.; Roger Sharp, Cessna Pilot Centers; Anthony Werner and Jim Mowery, Jeppesen-Sanderson; Howard Stoodley, Manassas Aviation Center; Dan Hoefert; Lawrence Cole, Human Factors Research and Engineering Scientific and Technical Advisor, FAA; Ron Galbraith, FAA Air Traffic Controller, Denver ARTCC; Michael Lenz, FAA General Aviation Certification and Operations Branch, Dr. Rich Adams, Engineering Psychologist, FAA Flight Standard Service; and Dr. William K. Krebs, Human Factors Research and Engineering Scientific and Technical Advisor, FAA.

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 Weather or not written by United States. National Transportation Safety Board and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Aviation Weather Services Handbook written by Federal Aviation Administration and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written by Robert A. Prentice with assistance from Douglas D. Streu, and edited by Cynthia Abelman and Tom Dulong"--Frwd.

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 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 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 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 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 A Pilot s Guide to Aviation Weather Services written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book General Aviation Pilots Perceived Usage and Valuation of Aviation Weather Information Sources written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aviation suffers many accidents due to the lack of good weather information in flight. Existing aviation weather information is difficult to obtain when it is most needed and is not well formatted for in-flight use. Because it is generally presented aurally, aviation weather information is difficult to integrate with spatial flight information and retain for reference. Efforts, by NASA's Aviation Weather Information (AWIN) team and others, to improve weather information accessibility, usability and decision aiding will enhance General Aviation (GA) pilots' weather situation awareness and decision-making and therefore should improve the safety of GA flight. Consideration of pilots' economic concerns will ensure that in-flight weather information systems are financially accessible to GA pilots as well. The purpose of this survey was to describe how aviation operator communities gather and use weather information as well as how weather related decisions are made between flight crews and supporting personnel. Pilots of small GA aircraft experience the most weather-related accidents as well as the most fatal weather related accident. For this reason, the survey design and advertisement focused on encouraging participation from GA pilots. Perhaps as a result of this emphasis, most responses, 97 responses or 85% of the entire response set, were from GA pilots, This paper presents only analysis of these GA pilots' responses. The insights provided by this survey regarding GA pilots' perceived value and usage of current aviation weather information. services, and products provide a basis for technological approaches to improve GA safety. Results of this survey are discussed in the context of survey limitations and prior work, and serve as the foundation for a model of weather information value, guidance for the design of in-flight weather information systems, and definition of further research toward their development.Latorella, Kara and Lane, Suzanne and Garland, DanielLangl

Download or read book Pilot s Guide to Weather Reports Forecasts and Flight Planning written by Terry T. Lankford and published by Tab Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: