Pub Date : 2020-08-02DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.20.100212
Damon J. Lercel, J. Hupy
Over the past decade, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), along with commercial UAS pilots, have become an established and increasingly regulated industry. Unfortunately, in the U.S. the number of near misses and incidents involving unsafe UAS operations is increasing dramatically. Additionally, industries looking to adopt UAS technologies not only require trained professionals to ensure safe and legal operations but may look for competencies that go well beyond the minimum regulatory requirements. To date, research regarding the higher order learning outcomes and competencies that are expected of UAS university graduates is lacking. Therefore, this research attempts to provide perspective of the core competencies that industry organizations may desire in a UAS graduate and, by extension, in a UAS professional. This paper describes the methods used to identify core UAS competencies, and presents a UAS Competency Learning Model that may help educators better prepare graduates for successful industry careers. Researchers utilized a multi-phase process over an 18-month period using both quantitative and qualitative methods, which included literature reviews, surveys, interviews, focus groups, and attendance at UAS industry events. Ultimately, from this research emerged the following six UAS competencies: Leadership, Technical Excellence, Safety and Ethics, Analytical Thinking, Teamwork, and Entrepreneurship.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-08DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.20.100202
Matthew J Romero, Michael F. Robertson, S. Goetz
Fatigue-related problems are not new in the aviation industry and have been a contributing factor to more than one-fifth of all aviation accidents. Using an online survey instrument, this exploratory study investigated how 138 collegiate flight students interact with fatigue during their flight training. Overall, students recognize they are fatigued and that it has a negative impact on their flight training. Many of the students identify the proper strategic adjustments that they need to make to manage fatigue, such as reducing workload, getting more sleep, and keeping a regular sleep schedule. However, they do not seem to be making those adjustments. They indicate that they lack enough quality sleep, have high workloads, and do not keep a regular sleep schedule. Findings from this study are consistent with recent flight training studies and can assist the collegiate flight training community in the management of student fatigue.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.22488/okstate.20.100208
Kwasi Adjekum, M. Tous
Organizational safety resilience is a key factor in sustaining an effective safety management system (SMS) in high-reliability organizations (HROs) such as aviation. Extant research advocates for monitoring, assessing and continuously improving safety in an organization that has a fully-functional SMS. Safety resilience provides a buffer against vulnerabilities. Extant research also suggests a paucity in terms of a measurement framework for organizational safety resilience in collegiate aviation operations. A quantitative approach using Reason’s safety resilience concept (Reason, 2011) is used to assess organizational safety resilience in a collegiate aviation program with an active conformance SMS accepted by the FAA. A sample of 516 research participants responded to an online survey instrument derived from Reason (2011). Structural Equation Model (SEM)/Path Analysis (PA) techniques are used to assess models that measure the strength of relationships between three cultural drivers (Commitment, Cognizance, Competence) of safety and safety resilience. There were strong significant relationships between these cultural drivers and safety resilience. Path analysis suggests that Commitment significantly mediates the path between Cognizance and Competence and highlights its important role in sustaining safety competencies. There were significant differences in the perceptions of safety resilience among top-level leadership, flight operations and ground operations. Flight operations and ground operations had higher mean scores on safety resilience than top-level leadership. Study provides a validated model of safety resilience that is essential for SMS improvements in collegiate aviation programs. Future studies will utilize this safety resilience model to assess other collegiate aviation programs in various phases of SMS implementation, airlines, and air traffic control operations. and competence. Their study analyzes the distinction between ‘work as imagined’ and ‘work as done’ as originally suggested by Hollnagel (2009). ‘Work as imagined’ assumes that if the correct standard procedures are known, understood and followed, safety will follow as a matter of course. However, staff at the ‘sharp end’ of organizations know that to create safety in their work, variability is not only desirable but essential. This positive adaptability within systems that allows good outcomes in the presence of both favorable and adverse conditions is termed resilience. They further argue that clinical and organizational work can be made safer, not only by addressing negative outcomes, but also by fostering excellence and promoting resilience through non-punitive safety reporting. Traffic Management, Airports and Unmanned Aerial Systems operations. Another significant benefit of this study is the capacity to assess operational vulnerabilities and strengthen safety resilience in collegiate aviation programs as part of continuous monitoring and improvements of SMS.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-07DOI: 10.22488/okstate.19.100219
Paul C. Cline
Gender is everywhere and influences everything. Gender can often be a system of social control. It is the primary way society groups its inhabitants. That said, gender does not act in isolation. Rather, it is part of a larger network of control that includes such elements as race, color, creed, religion, sexuality, gender identity, national origin, and socio-economic status. These factors are clearly evident in the life of Bessie Coleman, the first African American pilot of either sex to earn an international pilot's license. Born into poverty in the waning years of the nineteenth century, Bessie Coleman had four distinct disadvantages: she was poor, female, and African American and Native American in the post reconstruction South. Bessie Coleman's story is both encouraging and heart wrenching. She was a woman far ahead of her time in a society not yet ready to accept a woman of color succeeding in what until then had been the private domain of white males.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-05DOI: 10.22488/okstate.19.100218
Inna Fainman, Y. Tokar
This paper reports on the results of vocabulary teaching sessions in an Aviation English Course conducted with three different groups of 12 fourth-year undergraduate students at the Flight Academy of the National Aviation University in Ukraine . The research objective was to identify how the explicit, the implicit, and the blended instruction influenced the students’ progress in Aviation English vocabulary acquisition. Experimental data was analyzed following the grounded theory approach. Each group took a pretest, a post-test, and a delayed test. The results showed that all three types of vocabulary instruction had a positive effect on the learning and recall of aviation vocabulary. The students who received the explicit treatment statistically outperformed the other two treatment groups in the posttest, based on immediate word acquisition. The results of the delayed test demonstrated that blended instruction was the most efficient approach in terms of delayed vocabulary retention as compared to a solely implicit or explicit teaching method. Therefore, we conclude that Aviation English classroom practices should incorporate a balanced approach employing both implicit and explicit vocabulary instruction.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-18DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.19.100217
J. Durham, T. Bliss
Before 2010, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) did not allow airmen to exercise the privileges of pilot in command (PIC) of an aircraft or obtain a medical certificate if one had been diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and/or taking an SSRI medication. Since 2010, the FAA relaxed its views and certification standards. However, this is not an issue unique to the U.S. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and other ICAO States began evaluating airmen suffering from anxiety, depression, and/or taking an SSRI medication in early 2000. ICAO and most ICAO States have identified the need for further research regarding mood disorders and airmen. In addition, ICAO has issued guidance regarding certification standards, though each ICAO State has the authority to set its own standards. While the FAA and the other ICAO States have accepted mood disorders in aviation as a reality, additional work is needed to unify standards within the international aviation community. ICAO States with more stringent standards, may force airmen to seek alternative treatment options and not disclose crucial medical information or seek appropriate treatment options in fear of reprisal. In 2018, a qualitative study was conducted that evaluated FAA medical certification standards for airmen suffering from mood disorders and compared them against medical certification standards of other ICAO State agencies and ICAO recommended practices. This qualitative study also evaluated U.S. pilot perceptions of the certification process, as well as views from a non-aviation medical physician using interviews and survey questionnaires. Responses were compared to current practices and evaluated. Findings from this study concluded that while FAA certification standards may be comparable to other ICAO States, general views regarding agency acceptance of mental health disorders can vary widely across State agencies.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-27DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.19.100215
T. Bachelder, Derren Duburguet, James Simmons, George G. King, T. J. D. Cino
The Aviation and Aerospace Science Department of Metropolitan State University of Denver has implemented a third-party Learning Management System (LMS) to standardize learning content in Aviation Fundamentals and Instrument Fundamentals, two core course s in the degree curriculum . Shifting primary content delivery to the online LMS allowed individual instructors to experiment with blended teaching techniques. In an effort to assess the usability of this course design, a survey of all student users was conducted . The findings presented in this article include dat a regarding the overall usability of the LMS system as well as student satisfaction and their preferences surrounding the blended format .
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Pub Date : 2019-06-27DOI: 10.22488/okstate.19.100216
M. Scharf, James D Cross
Hazardous attitudes, such as antiauthority, impulsivity, invulnerability, macho, and resignation, may increase the risk of accident or incident in aviation. Hazardous attitudes is an overarching term, based on different perceptions and behaviors, which may negativity affect decision making in pilots. The Aviation Safety Attitudes Scale, which addresses attitudes in three areas (Self-Confidence, Risk Orientation, and Safety Orientation), was give to 302 low-time pilots (fewer than 250 hours of flight time). The purpose of this quantitative, survey research was to determine the potential hazardous attitudes of flight school students. Factorial Analysis revealed differences in three areas among the sample: Certification by Number of hours flown in previous 90 days interaction on Safety Orientation was overall statistically significant, F (2,296)=6.333, p=0.002; Certification by Gender integration on Risk Orientation was overall statistically significant, F (1,294)=4.48, p=0.035; and Gender by Certification interaction on Self-Confidence was overall significant, F (1,294)=10.324, p=0.01. The researchers concluded that although the overall hazardous attitudes of pilots are appropriate, there may be additional opportunities for instructors and curriculum developers to continually reinforce hazardous attitude awareness.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-07DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.19.100213
S. Winter
Since deregulation of the airline industry in the 1970’s, the distance between seats on commercial aircraft referred to as seat pitch has been decreasing. What used to be around 35 inches has now reduced to 28-31 inches depending on the type of airline and fare class purchased. As a result, some consumer advocacy groups have filed litigation and pressed the U.S. Congress to regulate a minimum seat pitch. These advocacy groups primarily cite safety concerns in the event of an emergency evacuation of the aircraft or health concerns such as deep vein thrombosis, which can occur from extended sitting periods and cramped quarters. Counter-arguments relate to consumers price sensitivity as it relates to airfare purchases, and their ability to purchase upgrades, such as seats with greater seat pitch, for additional fees. Therefore, the purpose of these studies was to identify consumer perceptions on government involvement in airline seat pitch and to create and validate a statistical model to predict a passenger’s support of government regulation of seat pitch. The findings indicate that approximately 60% of passengers felt the government should regulate seat pitch. Perceptions of regulation value, disgust, happiness, Republican political affiliation, Hispanic ethnicity, Asian ethnicity, and high school level of education were significant predictors of support for government regulation of commercial airline seat pitch. The model explains 53.7% of the variance, and three separate, secondary assessments suggested good model fit and a valid model was produced. The practical applications of these findings are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-07DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.19.100214
Shlok Misra, M. Halleran
This study was designed to evaluate the effects of utilizing Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs) in flight training with emphasis on preflight skill development and Aeronautical Decision Making. The study participants were student pilots or private pilots who used EFBs in flight training and had not logged more than 100 total flight hours. The study utilized a simulation of the preflight process of a Visual Flight Rules cross country flight in which the participants answered questions related to the flight preparation. Fifty percent of the study’s population completed this survey with the information provided through an EFB and the other 50% population had to answer the questions without an EFB using traditional unabridged raw data. A comparative analysis of the data collected from both groups was performed. The largest degradation of performance was noted in Notices to Airmen (NOTAM) interpretation and the least degradation in performance was noted in weather-related decision-making.
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