Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100444
S. Rice, S. Winter, Keegan Kraemer, Rian Mehta, Korhan Oyman
This paper presents the findings of a phenomenological study of instructor pilot first-hand experiences when conducting training for collegiate flight students in a jet aircraft. While jet training has been conducted in simulators in the past, this was one of the first instances of training in an actual aircraft. A total of 22 students completed training in a very light jet aircraft during the spring semester of their junior year at the subject university. A group of four instructors conducted both simulator and flight training with the students. Surveys were used to collect data from instructors longitudinally throughout the length of the 16-week semester. At the conclusion of the training period, participants completed a structured interview. The results of those interviews suggested that students excelled in areas such as avionics programming, use of standardized operating procedures, and checklist usage. Students were challenged by the increased operating speeds of the jet aircraft, descent planning, and lesson preparedness. The instructors offered suggestions to enhance the course and provided a summary of the lessons learned.
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Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100442
Ryan Phillips, M. Baron
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceived leadership effectiveness of aviation program leaders at higher education institutions utilizing the four leadership frames of Drs. Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal. A frame is a tactic which allows an individual to gain a perspective on a given situation. The four frames of Bolman and Deal are the structural, human resources, political, and symbolic frames. An anonymous online survey, developed using the Leadership Orientation Instrument of Bolman and Deal, was sent electronically to aviation faculty and staff followers at University Aviation Association higher education institutions. Five-point Likert scales were used by aviation faculty and staff to assess the perceived leadership effectiveness of aviation program leaders. A one-way ANOVA was conducted comparing the perceived leadership effectiveness scores based on the four leadership frames. No significant difference was found in perceived leadership effectiveness based on the primary leadership frame, F(3,90) = 1.08, p > .05. An additional one-way ANOVA was run comparing the perceived leadership effectiveness scores of the four frame groups (no frames, single frame, paired frames, and multiple frames). A significant difference was found in perceived leadership effectiveness based on the number of frames utilized, F(3,222) = 101.93, p < .05. Post-hoc tests revealed that aviation program leaders scored higher in perceived leadership effectiveness if they subscribed to the paired frames or multiple frames approaches.
摘要本研究的目的是利用博士的四种领导框架，考察高等教育机构航空项目领导者的领导效能感知。李·博尔曼和特伦斯·迪尔。框架是一种策略，它允许个人获得对给定情况的看法。博尔曼和迪尔的四个框架分别是结构框架、人力资源框架、政治框架和象征框架。一份匿名的在线调查使用了博尔曼和迪尔的领导力导向工具，以电子方式发送给大学航空协会高等教育机构的航空教职员工和员工追随者。五分李克特量表被航空学院和工作人员用来评估航空项目领导者的感知领导效能。采用单因素方差分析比较四种领导框架的感知领导效能得分。基于初级领导框架的领导效能感知无显著差异，F(3,90) = 1.08, p > 0.05。对四个框架组(无框架、单框架、配对框架和多框架)的感知领导效能得分进行了额外的单向方差分析。使用框架数对感知领导效能有显著影响，F(3,222) = 101.93, p < 0.05。事后测试显示，如果航空项目领导者采用配对框架或多框架方法，他们在感知领导效能方面得分更高。
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Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100437
Mary E. Johnson, Alan Gonzalez, Brian Kozak, Lauren A. Sperlak
Aviation activities produce carbon. The International Civil Aviation Organization has included a carbon calculator on its website as a way to estimate a passenger’s carbon footprint. United Airlines, Delta Airlines and British Airways are three airlines that offer customers ways to offset the carbon emissions generated by their air travel. University flight programs also generate carbon emissions. While not required in the United States at this time, forward-thinking companies and universities are looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint by reducing or offsetting emissions created by combustion of fuels. This paper discusses aviation fuel emissions, examines the carbon footprint of a university flight program, identifies ways to offset the carbon, and explores the use of trees to offset the carbon generated by flight operations. In addition, this paper presents a methodology for estimating the carbon footprint for the fuel used in a university flight training program and for estimating the number of trees to offset aviation emissions.
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Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100438
J. Kavouras, Randal J. DeMik, A. C. Hopkins
Representatives of the aviation community are interested in determining the environmental effects of leaded fuel emissions from general aviation flight operations. Soil is an environmental sink for lead to accumulate over time. This study measured bioavailable lead concentrations in topsoil at three general aviation airports and at one site with no general aviation operations in order to determine if general aviation aircraft operations are contributing to the contamination of airport topsoil at levels that require remediation by law. Bioavailable refers to substances that organisms can absorb, because they have access to them. Topsoil was collected from refueling areas, run-up areas, and approach corridor/departure end runways. The samples were dried and the fine fractions were separated. The fine fractions were suspended in nitric acid to extract the lead for laboratory analysis. A univariate ANOVA was computed comparing the quantity of soluble lead in the topsoil from three general aviation airports (further classified as high, moderate, and low volume of flight operations) and at one site with no general aviation operations (arboretum). A significant main effect for the high volume airport was found (F[2, 24] = 10.966, p .05). However, an interaction was observed when comparisons were made between the airport sites (n = 3) and locations sampled at the sites (n = 3) that was significant (F[4, 24] = 2.902, p < .05). Tukey’s HSD was used to determine the nature of the differences. The analysis revealed that concentrations of lead in soil samples collected from the high volume airport refueling area, run-up area, and approach corridor/departure end runway were significantly lower than the moderate volume airport run-up area lead concentrations. The results at the three airports investigated support the conclusions that the risk of ingesting lead from surface soils is low and bioavailable lead in the soil sampled from general aviation airports is not accumulating in quantities that require remediation according to Environmental Protection Agency requirements.
航空界的代表对确定通用航空飞行作业中含铅燃料排放的环境影响很感兴趣。土壤是铅随时间累积的环境汇。本研究测量了三个通用航空机场和一个没有通用航空运营的地点表土中的生物可利用铅浓度，以确定通用航空飞机运营是否导致机场表土污染达到需要法律补救的程度。生物可利用性是指生物体能够吸收的物质，因为它们能够接触到这些物质。从加油区、起飞区和进近走廊/离场跑道收集表土。对样品进行干燥，分离细馏分。细馏分悬浮在硝酸中提取铅供实验室分析。通过单变量方差分析，比较了三个通用航空机场(进一步分为高、中、低飞行量)和一个没有通用航空运营的地点(植物园)表土中可溶性铅的含量。发现高容量机场的显著主效应(F[2,24] = 10.966, p .05)。然而，当比较机场站点(n = 3)和站点(n = 3)的采样位置时，发现了显著的相互作用(F[4,24] = 2.902, p < 0.05)。使用Tukey的HSD来确定差异的性质。分析发现，高容量机场加油区、助跑区和进近走廊/离场跑道土壤样品铅浓度显著低于中等容量机场助跑区土壤样品铅浓度。三个机场的调查结果支持以下结论，即从表层土壤中摄取铅的风险很低，从通用航空机场取样的土壤中生物可利用铅的积累量没有达到需要根据环境保护局的要求进行补救的程度。
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Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100435
Yi Gao, K. T. S. Au, H. Kwon, E. Leong
Australia has a rich history in aviation and has the tradition of being a pilot training provider for many decades. Students from all over the world are being attracted to Australia every year with the ambition of becoming a commercial pilot. An understanding of the impact of national cultures on the learning styles of student pilots from different culture backgrounds will be beneficial to the overall quality of pilot education in Australia. In this study, students enrolled in the aviation (pilot) program of Swinburne University of Technology were surveyed using Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory, and subsequent analysis was performed to the survey data. It was found that a predominant percentage of aviation students were adopting converging and assimilating styles. When comparing findings of this project with previous studies using samples from China and the United States, Australian students’ preference of abstract conceptualization was found to be quite similar to that of American students and different from Chinese students, which is an indication of the impact of national culture on learning style preference. This newfound knowledge of Australian aviation students will help raise the understanding how aviation students of different cultural backgrounds learn piloting skills and provide insightful information for flight training academies and researchers.
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Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100426
T. Bliss
This article reports on a review of academic journal articles published in the Collegiate Aviation Review (CAR), with the goal of evaluating academic research in aviation education. The study included all 189 articles published in the CAR over the past 28 years (1983-2010). The author identified and categorized aviation faculty and industry professionals who have led the aviation profession, academically, and what important issues and challenges they have identified in their scholarly writings over the past 28 years. Each article was categorized by author’s institution/organization affiliation, classification by subject category, and geographical grouping of contributing authors and institutions/organizations. The author found that the journal covers a broad range of authors and subject matter. The top five subject areas covered were: collegiate flight training curriculum and instructional methods, collegiate aviation degree programs, the collegiate aviation student, the airport system, and the commercial airline industry. The author concludes with a discussion of the implications of this study for the role of aviation faculty and industry professionals engaged in aviation education research. The author stresses that this research will help the University Aviation Association (UAA) meet the needs of the continuously changing aviation/aerospace industry.
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Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100429
K. George
The U.S. economic success was rooted in an industrial policy which had five pillars of a prosperity formula that served as a catalyst for development and growth: 1) public/private cooperation on education, 2) immigration policy, 3) infrastructure, 4) risk/capital management, and 5) government-funded scientific research. In this paper, the development and growth of the aviation industry is viewed in the framework of such a prosperity formula in order to face the four areas that the entire economy will need to face in the current market in order to be competitive in the global market in the 21st century. Since the aerospace and aviation industry is an integral part of the US economy, it stands that those elements will also challenge the aviation industry’s future. Considering the economic history of the industry and the prosperity formula, the industry has opportunities for not only normal growth but potentially can be used as a catalyst for industry health, significance and renewal in the future as well as the indirect aviation-related industries. It is clear that further research and thought are needed to provide pathways to meet the four economic challenges in the aviation sector identified in this paper. It is hoped that this paper will serve as a foundation for that research.
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Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100432
Thomas A. Guinn, K. Rader
The required meteorology coursework for 22 accredited professional flight baccalaureate degree programs was examined and compared. Significant differences were noted in both the number of required meteorology courses as well as the number of required meteorology credit hours. While all programs required at least one three-credit meteorology course, not all programs required an aviation-specific meteorology course. In addition to the required number of meteorology courses and credit hours, topics within the aviation-specific meteorology courses were also examined. The study showed the topics of “flight hazards” and “aviation weather reports and charts” were identified most frequently in course descriptions, followed third by “weather applications to flight.” However, based on the course descriptions alone, it was unclear if the meteorological theory of flight hazards was addressed in the courses or if the courses only addressed the interpretation of weather hazards charts. To improve and standardize aviation-meteorology education in professional flight-degree programs, a recommendation was made to either provide aviation-meteorology curriculum guidelines through the University Aviation Association (UAA) Curriculum Committee or to form a separate UAA Aviation-Meteorology Education Committee.
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Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100441
Samuel R. Pavel, Bryan T. Harrison
This article reports on a study undertaken to compare the perceptions of faculty members and administrators of the value placed on promotion and tenure. The authors discuss factors including the value of publishing in various aviation publications, sole versus multi-authorship, the geographic venue for presenting scholarly research, and service. They used a database created from a survey administered by Dr. Ruiz of Southern Illinois University (see Pavel, Legier, and Ruiz, 2012). The database contains responses to 20 multiple-choice questions (with additional comments) of 19 department chairs, 10 full professors, 29 associate professors, and 24 assistant professors from four-year collegiate UAA member institutions. Department chairs were considered to be administrators because they have more supervisory duties than faculty and may have a smaller teaching load. The responses were divided by employment classification and institution type (research versus non-research). The authors of the current study found that there was generally little difference between administration and faculty perceptions to the survey questions at similar institution types. Survey responses differed more when comparing research to non-research institutions, specifically responses on the value of scholarship in the promotion and tenure process. However, teaching and service perceptions were generally similar for all groups of respondents; most respondents (87%) considered teaching to be vital.
本文报告了一项研究，比较了教师和管理人员对晋升和终身职位的价值的看法。作者讨论的因素包括在各种航空出版物上发表的价值，单独与多作者，展示学术研究的地理地点和服务。他们使用了一个由南伊利诺伊大学的Ruiz博士管理的调查创建的数据库(见Pavel, Legier, and Ruiz, 2012)。该数据库包含19位系主任、10位正教授、29位副教授和24位助理教授对20道选择题的回答(附带评论)。这些教授来自四年制大学UAA成员院校。系主任被认为是行政人员，因为他们比教师有更多的监督职责，可能有更小的教学负荷。回答按就业分类和机构类型(研究与非研究)划分。本研究的作者发现，在类似的机构类型中，管理人员和教师对调查问题的看法基本上没有什么不同。在比较研究机构和非研究机构时，调查结果的差异更大，特别是对奖学金在晋升和终身教职过程中的价值的反应。然而，所有受访者对教学和服务的看法大致相似;大多数受访者(87%)认为教学至关重要。
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Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100427
S. Kearns, J. Sutton
This article reports on a study of Canadian pilots that focused on the threats, errors, and nontechnical skills of pilots within Canadian general aviation (GA) operations. The measurement of nontechnical skills is compared to the standard measurement of flight hours as a measure of pilot expertise. The authors note that nontechnical skills may develop at different rates depending upon exposure to different threats and errors within specific types of flight operations. The study included 130 narratives describing real-world scenarios, gathered from pilots with an online self-report Hangar Talk Survey (HTS). Within the narratives, three pilot reviewers identified threats, errors, and nontechnical skills. The authors found that several threats, errors, and nontechnical skills were significantly associated with specific types of operations. Analyses revealed that the threats of operational pressure, airport condition, and student pilot error were significantly associated with the type of operation. They conclude that the rate of nontechnical skill development may be linked to the type of operation a pilot is involved in, rather than to the number of flight hours alone.
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