International Center for Air Transportation: Recent submissions

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    • Experimental Study of Vertical Flight Path Mode Awareness 

      Johnson, Eric N.; Pritchett, Amy R. (International Center for Air Transportation, 1995-03)
      An experimental simulator study was run to test pilot detection of an error in autopilot mode selection. Active airline air crew were asked to fly landing approaches by commanding the Flight Path Angle mode while monitoring ...

    • Development of a Piezoelectric Servo-Flap Actuator for Helicopter Rotor Control 

      Prechtl, Eric Frederick (International Center for Air Transportation, 1994-04-24)
      An actuator using a piezoelectric bender to de ect a trailing edge servo- ap for use on a helicopter rotor blade was designed, built, and tested. This actuator is an improvement over one developed previously at MIT. ...

    • Implications of Contingency Planning Support for Weather and Icing 

      Vigeant-Langlois, Laurence; Hansman, R. John (2003-06-16)
      A human-centered systems analysis was applied to the adverse aircraft weather encounter problem in order to identify desirable functions of weather and icing information. The importance of contingency planning was identified ...