The effects of advanced navigation aids and different ATC environments on task-management and communication in low visibility landing and taxi  (2001)

The Taxiway Navigation and Situation Awareness (T-NASA) system of surface navigation aids have been shown to increase taxi speeds, almost eliminate taxi navigation errors, increase pilots' situational awareness, decrease pilot workload, and increase traffic awareness [1, 2, 3]. In this paper, we investigate how these aids affect task management and crew procedures in different Air Traffic Control (ATC) environments-datalink and datalink redundant with voice. We also examine the impact of these different ATC environments on task management and crew procedures without the T-NASA system. We find that although both types of datalink have benefits, there are also problems associated with them. In addition to the previously described advantages of the T-NASA system, we find that it alleviates many datalink problems.

+ Foyle, David

+ Parke, Bonny

+ Kanki, Barbara

+ Renfroe, Dan

+ Munro, Pamela

+ Nord, K

+ Hooey, Becky

+ Foyle, David

ATC environments, communication, landing, low visibility, navigation aids, task-management, taxi

In R. S. Jensen (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eleventh Symposium on Aviation Psychology. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University

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