Assessment of Pilotage Error in Airborne Area Navigation Procedures
- 1 June 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- Vol. 16 (3) , 223-228
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001872087401600304
Abstract
In 1969, by specifically including “pilotage error” in the error budget for area navigation system certification, the Federal Aviation Administration legally attached economic premiums and penalties to human, as well as equipment, performance in man-machine system design. To establish the accuracy of use and freedom from pilot blunders associated with systems employing various configurations of displays and controls requires both simulator and flight experimentation. An automatically adaptive cockpit side task provides a saturating level of pilot workload and allows the sensitive, orderly, and statistically reliable measurement of a pilot's residual attention as a common metric for area navigation system assessment.Keywords
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