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Honeywell Enhancing Airplane State Awareness (EASA) Project: Final Report on Refinement and Evaluation of Candidate Solutions for Airplane System State AwarenessThe loss of pilot airplane state awareness (ASA) has been implicated as a factor in several aviation accidents identified by the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST). These accidents were investigated to identify precursors to the loss of ASA and develop technologies to address the loss of ASA. Based on a gap analysis, two technologies were prototyped and assessed with a formative pilot-in-the-loop evaluation in NASA Langley’s full-motion Research Flight Deck. The technologies address: 1) data source anomaly detection in real-time, and 2) intelligent monitoring aids to provide nominal and predictive awareness of situations to be monitored and a mission timeline to visualize events of interest. The evaluation results indicated favorable impressions of both technologies for mitigating the loss of ASA in terms of operational utility, workload, acceptability, complexity, and usability. The team concludes that there is a feasible retrofit solution for improving ASA that would minimize certification risk, integration costs, and training impact.



Document ID
20200001141
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
Whitlow, Stephen D. (Honeywell Aerospace Plymouth, MN, United States)
Dillard, Michael B. (Honeywell Aerospace Plymouth, MN, United States)
Date Acquired
February 25, 2020
Publication Date
February 1, 2020
Subject Category
Air Transportation And Safety
Report/Patent Number
NF1676L-35460
NASA/CR-2020-220441
Funding Number(s)
WBS: 340428.02.40.07.01
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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