26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-9.10.2

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENT FOR THE PILOT EVALUATION OF AN AIRBORNE RUNWAY INCURSION ALERTING SYSTEM

S. Szasz, J. Gauci, D. Zammit-Mangion, B. Zammit*, A. Sammut*, D. Harris
Cranfield Univ., UK; *Univ. of Malta, Malta

Keywords: runway incursion, alerting system, pilot evaluation, collision avoidance

The paper describes the design of the experiment involving pilot-in-the-loop simulator evaluation of an airborne runway incursion alerting system. Each experiment run was split into two half-day sessions, with pilot briefing in the first session and the simulator session, interview and post-session de-brief in the second half day.

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