This presentation was given at the Partnership for Safety Meeting in Washington, DC. It examines the similarities that are found when calls signs are visually similar or similar sounding. Visually similar call signs increase the chances of controllers picking up the wrong flight strip.
Objective: This paper uses a review of previous studies to provide a recommendation for the optimal scale size of the Air Traffic Workload Input Techn...
FAA Air Traffic Control Operations Concepts Volume VII.- TRACON Controllers (1989) developed by CTA, Inc., a technical description of the duties of a ...
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