Role of the human operator in future commercial Reduced Crew Operations

AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings

Volumn 2018-September, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Sprengart, Sebastian Michael ^a   Neis, Stefan Manuel ^a   Schiefele, Jens ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Jeppesen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mission Management; Reduced Crew Operations; Role definition; Single pilot operations

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; MANAGERS;

AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS; AIRLINE OPERATIONS; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; MANAGING INDIVIDUALS; MISSION MANAGEMENT; PILOT OPERATIONS; REDUCED CREW OPERATIONS; ROLE DEFINITION;

DIGITAL AVIONICS;

EID: 85060610676     PISSN: 21557195     EISSN: 21557209     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DASC.2018.8569803     Document Type: Conference Paper

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