NTL Record

Title A review and discussion of flight management system incidents reported to the Aviation Safety Reporting System
Record ID 33422
Personal Name
Creator
Dodd, R.S.; Eldredge, D.; Mangold, S.J.
Source 84p. in various pagings
Corporate Creator John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
Corporate
Contributor
Battelle Memorial Institute
Publisher United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration
Publication Date 19920200
Language English
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.
Rosap ID dot:5855
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5855
TRT Terms Flight control systems; Cockpit resource management; Crew resource management; Human factors in crashes; Airline pilots
General Subjects Aviation Safety Report System; Flight Management System
Classification NTL - SAFETY AND SECURITY - SAFETY AND SECURITY;
NTL - SAFETY AND SECURITY - Human Factors
Geographical
Coverage
United States
OCLC 227782033
TRIS Online
Accession No
585102
Contract Number FA1E2/A1070
Report Number DOT-VNTSC-FAA-92-2; DOT/FAA/RD-92/2
Availability Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Technical Reference Center
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/33000/33400/33422/33422.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository