Pilot weather assessment: Implications for visual flight rules flight into instrument meteorological conditions

International Journal of Aviation Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 153-166

  Coyne, Joseph T ^a   Baldwin, Carryl L ^b   Latorella, Kara A ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549120283     PISSN: 10508414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10508410801926756     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. AOPA Air Safety Foundation. (1996). Safety review: General aviation weather accidents. Frederick, MD: Author.
2. AOPA Air Safety Foundation. (2002). 2002 Nail report: Accident trends and factors for 2001. Frederick, MD: Author.
3. Coyne, J. T., Baldwin, C. L., & Latorella, K. A. (2005). Influence of graphical METARs on pilot's weather judgment. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 49th annual meeting (pp. 131-135). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
4. Driskill, W. E., Weismuller, J. J., Quebe, J., Hand, D. K., Dittmar, M. J., & Hunter, D. R. (1997). The use of weather information in aeronautical decision making (Tech. Rep. No. NTIS DOT/FAA/AM97/3). Washington, DC: Federal Aviation Administration.
5. Goh, J., & Wiegmann, D. A. (2001). Visual flight rules flight into instrument meteorological conditions: An empirical investigation of the possible causes. International Journal of Aviation Psychology, 11, 359-379.
6. Goh, J., & Wiegmann, D. A. (2002a). Human factors analysis of accidents involving visual flight rules flight into adverse weather. Aviation Space & Environmental Medicine, 73, 817-822.
7. Goh, J., & Wiegmann, D. A. (2002b). Relating flight experience and pilot's perceptions of decision-making skill. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46th annual meeting (pp. 81-85). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
8. Hunter, D. R., Martinussen, M., & Wiggins, M. W. (2003). Understanding how pilots make weather-related decisions. International Journal of Aviation Psychology, 13, 73-87.
9. O'Hare, D., Owen, D., & Wiegmann, D. A. (2001). The 'where' and 'why' of cross-country VFR crashes: Database and simulation analysis. In Proceedings of the 45th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (pp. 78-81). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
10. O'Hare, D., & Smitheram, T. (1995). "Pressing on" into deteriorating conditions: An application of behavioral decision theory to pilot decision making. International Journal of Aviation Psychology, 5, 351-370.
11. Wiegmann, D. A., Goh, J., & O'Hare, D. (2002). The role of situation assessment and flight experience in pilots' decisions to continue visual flight rules flight into adverse weather. Human Factors, 44, 189-197.
12. Wiggins, M. W., & O'Hare, D. (2003). Expert and novice pilot perceptions of static in-flight images of weather. International Journal of Aviation Psychology, 13, 173-187.