RE: Aviation5 Nov 2020 16:41
Iam sure aviation will become big once it starts.
Personally I think it will end up as an extra tool in the black box. The 737 data will tel you what the plane was doing, the sound recording will tel you what the pilots are saying but for accident investigators how much more can they learn from where both pilots were looking? I have read various studies and it seems such a sensible solution.
Those boxes are the flight data recorder and the ****pit voice recorder. Both use solid state hard drives, with memory cards on a circuit board. The first logs all the details that together provide a picture of everything the plane was doing as much as 25 hours before a crash: the positions of various switches, engine settings, airspeed, altitude, and more than 1,000 other parameters. Examine that data and “you know what happened to the airplane physically,” says aviation consultant Kit Darby.
The ****pit voice recorder is what it sounds like: an audio recording of everything the pilots are saying and hearing. That can often give you the why of a crash, since it provides the pilots’ interpretation of whatever’s going on and how they’re reacting. Paired with the flight data recorder, it can give you the whole picture. “You have to combine the two,” Darby says.
Which is why they’re built to survive practically any type of crash. Honeywell, which manufacturers black boxes, says they can survive an impact of up to 3,400 Gs. (Unless you’re a trained fighter pilot, you can probably handle about 5 Gs before passing out.) They can withstand the pressure exerted by 20,000 feet of water—for two years. They do just fine in temperatures up to 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit as well as ice, so neither a regular nor a wight dragon can destroy them.
Abstract: Commercial aviation is currently one of the safest modes of transportation; however, human
error is still one major contributing cause of aeronautical accidents and incidents. One promising
avenue to further enhance flight safety is Neuroergonomics, an approach at the intersection of
neuroscience, cognitive engineering and human factors, which aims to create better human–system
interaction. Eye-tracking technology allows users to “monitor the monitoring” by providing insights
into both pilots’ attentional distribution and underlying decisional processes. In this position paper,
we identify and define a framework of four stages of step-by-step integration of eye-tracking systems
in modern ****pits. Stage I concerns Pilot Training and Flight Performance Analysis on-ground; stage
II proposes On-board Gaze Recordings as extra data for the “black box” recorders; stage III describes
Gaze-Based Flight Deck Adaptation including warning and alerting systems, and, eventually, stage
IV prophesies Gaze-Based Aircraft Adaptation including authority taking by the aircraft. We illustrate
the potential of these four steps with a description of incidents or accidents that we could certainly
have avoided thanks to e
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