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Miller, Ronald C.

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Breakdowns in Coordination Between Air Traffic Controllers

This talk outlines the complexity of coordination in air traffic control, introduces the NextGen technologies, identifies common causes for coordination breakdowns in air traffic control and examines whether these causes are likely to be reduced with the introduction of NextGen technologies. While some of the common causes of breakdowns will be reduced in a NextGen environment this conclusion should be drawn carefully given the current stage of development of the technologies and the observation that new technologies often shift problems rather than reduce them.

Bearman, Chris

Evaluating the subjective workload of directional orientation tasks with varying display formats

The impact of various flight-related tasks on the workload imposed by the requirement to compute new headings, course changes, and reciprocal headings is investigated experimentally. It is shown that, in terms of speed and accuracy, pilots are more efficient when alphanumeric display formats are provided. It is suggested that a voice command of 'turn to a specific heading' would provide the optimal method for issuing heading changes when used in conjunction with an alphanumeric display format.

Miller, Ronald C.