The purpose of this study was to determine if the addition of extended reality (XR) to an existing training program provided to new hire flight attendants improved training effectiveness in terms of cabin door procedures. Methods. This retrospective cohort study used preexisting flight attendant training data provided by a collaborating organizatio
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Understanding the production of non-volatile particulate matter (nvPM), which is composed primarily of soot, is critical not only for reducing emissions but also for improving engine performance. While there has been significant prior work studying the fundamentals of soot formation, there is significantly less work that investigates soot formation
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Aircraft noise exposure is linked to cardiovascular disease risk. One understudied candidate pathway is obesity. This study investigates the association between aircraft noise and obesity among female participants in two prospective Nurses’ Health Study (NHS and NHSII) cohorts.
The recent interest in the development of supersonic transport raises concerns about an increase in community noise around airports. As noise certification standards for supersonic transport other than Concorde have not yet been developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization, there is a need for a physics-based scaling rule for superson
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Biofuels’ induced land-use change (ILUC) emissions have been widely studied over the past 15 years. Many studies have addressed uncertainties associated with these estimates. These studies have broadly examined uncertainties associated with the choice of economic models, their assumptions and parameters, and a few bio-physical variables. However, u
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In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration’s Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT) is approved to predict the impacts of aircraft noise and emissions. AEDT’s critical role in regulatory compliance and evaluating the environmental impacts of aviation requires asking how accurate are its noise predictions. Previous studies suggest that AEDT
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Aviation incidents and accidents have often been linked to inadequate monitoring of flight deck information. Still, to date, limited data and guidance exist on how pilots should, and how they actually do allocate their attention to various flight deck displays. This project aims to help fill this gap with the goal to inform design and training inte
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Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) supported a series of engine stand tests led by the Federal Aviation Administration’s Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (FAA/CAMI) as part of a congressionally mandated aircraft air quality study. Experiments were conducted at the Kansas National Gas Machinery Laboratory (NGML) from May 16th to 19
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Modeling dispersion of aircraft emissions is challenging because aircraft are mobile sources with varying emissions rates at different elevations depending on the operating mode. Aircraft emissions during landing and take-off cycle (LTO) influence air quality in and around the airport, and depending on the number of aircraft operations and location
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
2024-02-01
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Aeromedical Safety Brochures are prepared for general aviation pilots, commercial pilots and physicians. The brochures acquaint the aviation community with the physiological challenges of the aviation environment and relevant safety concerns.
The Aircraft Certification, Safety, and Accountability Act requires improved integration of human factors in the Federal Aviation Administration’s regulatory processes and material. This paper reviews research that could contribute to the data and processes that would be useful to the FAA in Aircraft Evaluation Division (AED) tasks. The more specif
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A focus on sustainability in aviation is required to mitigate the environmental impact of its growth. Modeling the environmental effects helps the aerospace community obtain quantitative data linked to aircraft emissions and noise. The Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT) offers the capability to model aviation operations using data sources of
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Persistent contrails make up a large fraction of aviationʼs contribution to global warming. We describe a scalable, automated detection and matching (ADM) system to determine from satellite data whether a flight has made a persistent contrail. The ADM system compares flight segments to contrails detected by a computer vision algorithm running on im
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
2024-01-01
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Aeromedical Safety Brochures
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Aeromedical Safety Brochures are prepared for general aviation pilots, commercial pilots and physicians. The brochures acquaint the aviation community with the physiological challenges of the aviation environment and relevant safety concerns.
The sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) working group in Colombia was convened under the SAF Global Supply Chain Development project (Project A93) led by the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment, also termed the Aviation Sustainability Center of Excellence (ASCENT) and executed by Washin
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Flightcrew training is a cornerstone of aviation safety, ensuring that pilots and other crewmembers possess the skills and knowledge required to navigate complex aircraft and respond effectively to non-normal situations. As technology continues to advance and new training demands continue to emerge in the aviation industry, the use of modern traini
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Olefins, a common intermediate from biomass conversion processes, are undesirable in jet fuel because of their poor thermal stability. This paper presents an approach for olefin quantitation using 2D gas chromatography coupled with vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy. Principal component analysis was used to reduce the dimensionality of the spectroscop
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment
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2023-10-01
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This report covers the period October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023. The Center was established by the authority of FAA solicitation 13-C-AJFE-Solicitation. During that time the ASCENT team launched a new website, which can be viewed at ascent.aero. The next meeting(s) will be held during the months of April and May 2024.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are the main precursors to soot particles in combustion systems. A lack of direct experimental evidence has led to controversial theoretical explanations for the transition from gas-phase species to organic soot clusters. This work focuses on sampling infant soot particles from well-defined flames followed by analys
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The primary goal of this research was to analyze operational data to study flightcrew response to system failures, malfunctions, and systems not functioning as expected. Data from normal flight operations show that pilots are exposed to such situations regularly. We reviewed 20 records from the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) public databas
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