The experiments described had three main objectives: First, to validate the recommendations for an improved Man Machine Interface (MMI) design based on a Phase I experiment on the human factors of data link in glass cockpits. Second, to investigate the effect of directly loading data linked Air Traffic Control (ATC) instructions into the various avionic systems (gating) on crew performance and finally, to study the effectiveness of different alerting schemes to ATC uplinks. The experiment was performed by the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) using their moving base Research Flight Simulator (RFS) which was configured to represent realistic, gate to gate, flight operations. A total of 9 crews participated for 6 flights lasting approximately 50 minutes each. Flight scenarios were routed from Amsterdam airport to London airport and back. Each pair of flights was performed with a different level of gating and associated procedures. Alerting schemes were studied, varying the use of distinctive aural alerts and the use of different alterting schemes depending on 'message criticality'. Results showed a dramatic increase in the crew acceptance levels of data link, as compared to the Phase I experiments, validating the recommendations based on these studies.


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    Title :

    Human Factors Issues with Airborne Data Link: Towards Increased Crew Acceptance for Both En-Route and Terminal Flight Operations


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    Publication date :

    1995


    Size :

    46 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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