A review and discussion of flight management system incidents reported to the Aviation Safety Reporting System

Details

• Creators:
  Dodd, R.S. ; Eldredge, D. ; Mangold, S.J.
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  Battelle Memorial Institute
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Flight control systems
  • Cockpit resource management
  • Crew resource management
  • Human factors in crashes
  • Airline pilots
  • Aviation Safety Report System
  • Flight Management System
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-VNTSC-FAA-92-2 ; DOT/FAA/RD-92/2
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final Report October 1990 - July 1991
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration
• Abstract:
  This report covers the activities related to the description, classification and ; analysis of the types and kinds of flight crew errors, incidents and actions, as ; reported to the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) database, that can occur as a ; result of the use of Flight Management Systems (FMSs) to fly within the national ; Airspace System (NAS). ; The analysis of the ASRS FMS-related database reports was conducted for the purpose of ; determining the types and kinds of design-induced problems that flight crews are ; having with FMSs that can result in the occurrence of errors, incidents and other ; operational problems. It was believed that review of these reports would provide a ; useful background and understanding of the FMS use domain (i.e., the flight ; environment) and offer a window into the cockpit setting, enabling the identification ; of categories of difficulties that flight crews appear to have with the FMS and its ; subsystems. Those elements of the FMS operational logic that are identified as ; potentially problematic will then be investigated in more detail in the Description ; and Characterization Study that is also ongoing. Together, thse two documents will ; result in a clearer understanding of the design-related FMS contributors to pilot ; error.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  FA1E2/A1070
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5855/dot_5855_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.53 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
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