Commercial airline single-pilot operations: System design and pathways to certification

IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 4-21

  Lim, Yixiang ^a   Bassien Capsa, Vincent ^a   Ramasamy, Subramanian ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Sabatini, Roberto ^a,b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; AIR TRANSPORTATION; CIVIL AVIATION; COCKPITS (AIRCRAFT); NASA; TRAINING AIRCRAFT; TRANSPORTATION;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER; COMMERCIAL AIRLINER; COMMERCIAL AIRLINES; CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS; PILOT OPERATIONS; RECENT RESEARCHES; REMOTELY PILOTED AIRCRAFT; REVENUE PASSENGER-KILOMETERS;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

EID: 85030542902     PISSN: 08858985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAES.2017.160175     Document Type: Article

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