Research challenges examining normal operations Joris Field, NLR Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium – National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Research Challenges Why research? • Confirming underlying theories • Putting workgroup conclusions to the test • Developing & testing new practices Normal operations – easy? • Realistic responses • Non-normal responses What is the perceived of a Go-Around... Research supportschance Operational Expertise • 99.9% • 0.1% ICAO LOC-I Symposium, May 2014 Tuesday, 20 2 Research Challenges What is the problem? Where does this come from? What can we do about it? ICAO LOC-I Symposium, May 2014 Tuesday, 20 3 How to examine the problem? Theory Operations Analysis ICAO LOC-I Symposium, May 2014 Tuesday, 20 4 Why? Where does this come from? Theoretical Operational Experimental ICAO LOC-I Symposium, May 2014 Tuesday, 20 5 Manual Operations of 4th Generation Airliners This research is funded as part of the FP7 2012 Aeronautics and Air Transport programme under EC contract ACP2-GA-2012-314765-Man4Gen Where does this come from? Experimental Analysis 7 ICAO LOC-I Symposium, May 2014 Tuesday, 20 May 2014 Approach Scenario Go-Around Events... Normal Ops: Go-Around Weather forecast – showers in the area From 1000 ft: 30 kt tailwind introduced • Visible on ND • Unstable airspeed • A/T compensates Heavy rain at Decision Height • Visibility reduces • Lose runway visual 8 ICAO LOC-I Symposium, May 2014 Tuesday, 20 May 2014 What do you measure? Crew behaviour • Instructor observers • Airbus Assessment & Grading System • ICAO Airline Pilot Competencies Data Measures • Actions • Eyetracking • Heart rate Debriefing & Analysis 9 ICAO LOC-I Symposium, May 2014 Tuesday, 20 May 2014 • Interviews • Observations What happened? Aware of the weather risk • Updates • Diversion Monitoring weather • Until short final G/A decision • Loss of visual • Unstabilised • Tailwind Note: These are provisional results from the initial analysis. 10 ICAO LOC-I Symposium, May 2014 Tuesday, 20 May 2014 Crew behaviour Captain – Pilot Flying • Flight Path • Commander? • Overview? First Officer – Pilot Monitoring • • • • Communications Flight Path? Weather? Aircraft Systems? Note: These are provisional results from the initial analysis. 11 ICAO LOC-I Symposium, May 2014 Tuesday, 20 May 2014 Man4Gen Partners: This research is funded as part of the FP7 2012 Aeronautics and Air Transport programme under EC contract ACP2-GA-2012-314765-Man4Gen Research Challenges Why research? • Confirming underlying theories • Putting workgroup conclusions to the test • Developing & testing new practices Normal operations – easy? • Realistic responses • Non-normal responses Research supports Operational Expertise ICAO LOC-I Symposium, May 2014 Tuesday, 20 13 This research is funded as part of the FP7 2012 Aeronautics and Air Transport programme under EC contract ACP2-GA-2012-314765-Man4Gen