The outcome of ATC message length and complexity on en route pilot readback performance / O. Veronika Prinzo [and others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Prinzo, O. Veronika

United States. Office of Aerospace Medicine

Series:

DOT/FAA/AM (Series) ; 09/2.

DOT/FAA/AM ; 09/2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air traffic control--United States.

Air traffic control.

Aeronautics--Communication systems.

Aeronautics.

Aviation medicine--United States.

Aviation medicine.

Display Systems.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Display Systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (43 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Office of Aerospace Medicine, Federal Aviation Administration, [2009]

Summary:

"Field data and laboratory studies conducted in the 1990s reported the rate of pilot readback errors and communication problems increased as controller transmissions became more complex. This resulted in the recommendation that controllers send shorter messages to reduce the memory load imposed on pilots by complex messages. More than 10 yrs have passed since a comprehensive analysis quantified the types and frequency of readback errors and communication problems that occurred in the en route operational environment. Hence, a content analysis was performed on 51 hrs of pilot and controller messages that were transmitted from five en route facilities in the contiguous United States between March and August 2006. This report contains detailed and comprehensive descriptions of routine air traffic control (ATC) transmissions and how ATC message complexity and message length affected pilot readback performance. The results show that message complexity had a statistically significant effect on the production of errors of omission only, while message length affected both the production of errors of omission and readback errors (substitution and transposition errors)."--Page i

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed July 6, 2009).

"January 2009."

"DOT/FAA/AM-09/2."

"OK-09-0434."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 19-20).

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.

Other Format:

Prinzo, O. Veronika. Outcome of ATC message length and complexity on en route pilot readback performance

OCLC:

320411047

Access Restriction:

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