Integration of Aeronautical Knowledge and Safety Management into Flight Operations

• Current trends in rotorcraft accident rates worldwide do not appear to be subsiding• Many factors contribute to this situation• Most important are statistics that point to the human facto

Book Review: Competency-Based Education in Aviation: Exploring Alternate Training Pathways

This review provides insight on the content and a review of the quality of the recent release of Competency-Based Education in Aviation: Exploring Alternate Training Pathways from Ashgate Publications. This review does not reflect the views of IJAAA or ERAU. This work was not peer reviewed

Application of Case Analysis to the Blended Modality in Graduate Coursework

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide campus provides multi-modal curriculum delivery: Classroom, Online, Eagle Vision, Eagle Vision Home, and Blended. This manuscript describes a longitudinal research study on the implementation of inquiry-based learning using case-based teaching. The population of the study is students enrolled in a core course in the Master of Aeronautical Science program. Case-based teaching is used as the online portion of the Blended delivery modality. The goal of this paper is to provide a discussion on the implementation of inquiry-based learning in a multimodal delivery system and to gather students’ perspectives thereof. This manuscript describes the (1) fundamentals of inquiry-based learning, (2) fundamentals of case-based teaching, and (3) strategies for integration of case-based teaching into the Blended delivery modality

Advanced UAS Training; Integration of Remote Live Aircraft Crash Investigation with UAS

Current Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) flight training generally operates at the ab-initio level. As UAS flight and academic programs evolve, so also must UAS training advance, specifically regarding new and evolving uses of UAS. This task must present a quality delivery in a distributed modality. As an example, integration of UAS into missions such as aircraft crash investigation are occurring or in development with safety investigators globally. Bringing this type of specialization (theory and practice) to academia must follow, but currently can only be done well in a face-to-face setting. Near term technology for UAS will allow distribution of a labor force capable of beyond visual line of site operations thus evolving methods for crash investigations and other types of inspections using UAS. A distributed teaching modality, using remote split operations, can exchange face-to-face learning for beyond line of sight skills and knowledge training. Therefore, UAS training must maintain the pace of this evolving process. Academia must resolve how the distributed student experience can approximate similar quality of advanced flight training as can be done face-to-face. In this research, a solution is explored that combines the concept of remote split operations using sUAS to conduct live flight operations over remotely located aircraft crash sites to impart the practical application of theory into a distributed lab setting

A comparative analysis of the Park-and-Ride/transit-oriented development tradeoff

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. [73]-75).Park-and-ride provided metro regions with a mechanism to reduce commute-generated vehicle-miles traveled, by capturing vehicles in or near their home communities and allowing their drivers to travel to their destinations via transit. The hypothesis underlying this study is that the loss of commuter parking to transit-oriented development involves a tradeoff of one set of benefits (and costs) for another. By assessing the performance of existing park-and-ride facilities, and comparing the associated costs and benefits with those we might expect from transit-oriented development, decision-makers might make land-use decisions that more effectively advance local and regional goals. To that end, this study sets up a methodology to allow for an "apples-to-apples" comparison of the impacts of park-and-ride and transit-oriented development on regional vehicle-miles traveled. This methodology is flexible in its methods and its application, so that it may be adapted to a range of modeling tools and techniques, available data, and regional contexts. Data collected from commuter rail stations in the Boston metro region suggests that park-and-ride performance is more a factor of station distance from commuters' destinations than of the position of a station relative to others on the transit line. This result indicates that redevelopment of park-and-ride facilities in the Boston metro region should focus on cost-inefficient facilities in communities nearer to the CBD, where the benefits of transit-oriented development are also often greater.by Jason Burgess.M.C.P

Use of Virtual Environments for Simulation of Accident Investigation

Aircraft accident investigation requires extensive theoretical and methodological knowledge as well as hands-on application. While there are a handful of training centers that offer crash site reconstructions as training aids, these facilities offer limited static tools that can only be accessed by a minimal number of trainees who have flexible work schedules and access to available budgetary resources for travel, lodging and tuition to attend what is generally not-for-credit hands-on training. The use of a virtual interactive aircraft crash training environment can deliver a virtual crash laboratory to an infinite number of trainees, worldwide, provided computer technology is present. The virtual hands-on experience allows students to apply complex theories and investigative methodologies in a secure, interactive, portable learning environment. Training can be modularized to specific airframe and crash scenarios, and can be geared toward initial, recurring, or advanced training and assessment needs. This research demonstrates the application, current capabilities, and future potential of the ERAU Aircraft Accident Investigation Virtual Lab and addresses issues and challenges associated with adapting this technology in academia and industry. Issues to be addressed relate to current training/educational challenges for aircraft accident investigation, quality in context, student satisfaction, integration into curriculum, and assessment protocols

One size does not fit all:Website Content of Australian Community Based Organisations

Community based organisations (CBOs) are non-profit, non-government organization which serve a local community’s needs. CBOs resemble non-profit small businesses in many ways. However, their special service characteristics and looser support structures make them a group to categorise separately for the purposes of this study. The issues facing CBOs and their development of web sites can differ from those of typical small businesses. There is little research available on the use of websites by CBOs and even less in relation to the content of their websites. This project reports on the analysis of the content of websites of three categories of CBOs. It is known that a similar set of barriers to the successful use of information technologies (and the Internet) as those facing small businesses can be identified for CBOs. Reporting on a study of the websites of 45 CBOs, this paper reflects on the differences between the website content of CBOs and small businesses and classifies the content of their websites according to four areas: identification and image; promotion and contract; relationship enhancement and transactional interactivity. Whilst a number of differences were discovered between the types of website features adopted by different categories of CBOs, the differences are not as stark when CBOs of the same category are compared

International Air Transport Association Vision 2050 Report Assessment

The International Air Transport Associations report Vision 2050 report addresses how the aviation industry members participating in the Vision 2050 will work towards meeting combined established goals, which include improving and creating a consistent profitability across the industry, focusing on the consumer, producing an improved global infrastructure, and advancements in technology. Understanding prospective future air transport volumes will help aviation industry participants plan now, how to meet the future needs for training a workforce, working with the government today on policy changes that may be needed and how to expand airline and airport operations to meet needs. The importance of aviation on a global scale and meeting initiatives could be beneficial to many areas within the aviation communities