Pilot performance, strategy, and workload while executing approaches at steep angles and with lower landing minima

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 759-772

  Boehm Davis, Deborah A ^a   Casali, John G ^b   Kleiner, Brian M ^b   Lancaster, Jeffrey A ^b   Saleem, Jason J ^c   Wochinger, Kathryn ^d  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d NOBLIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; LANDING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TRANSPORTATION;

REGIONAL AIRPORTS; SMALL AIRCRAFT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM (SATS);

AIRPORTS;

AIRPLANE PILOT; AIRPORT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; FLIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SIMULATOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEATHER; WORKLOAD;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; ADULT; AVIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HUMANS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VIRGINIA; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WEATHER; WORKLOAD;

EID: 34548863898     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007X230145     Document Type: Article

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