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FLIGHT DECK / AIRCRAFT SAFETY - FLIGHT DECK
The Flight Deck/Maintenance/System Integration Human Factors Program (Flight Deck) is managed by Dr. Tom McCloy. The program includes General Aviation, Air Transportation Human Factors, Flight Technologies and Procedures, Vertical Flight, Unmanned Aerospace Systems, and Aviation Maintenance. Research in these areas helps achieve FAA’s Flight Plan goals for increased safety and greater capacity by:
- Developing more effective methods for pilot, inspector, and maintenance technician training.
- Enhancing the understanding and application of error management strategies in flight and maintenance operations.
- Increasing human factors considerations in certifying new aircraft and in equipment design and modification.
- Improving pilot, inspector, and maintenance technician task performance.
- Developing methodologies to identify and mitigate risk factors in automation-related operator errors.
- Developing requirements, knowledge, guidance, and standards for design, certification, and use of automation-based technologies, tools, and support systems.
- Addressing human performance and human-system performance requirements associated with transitioning from 2015 to 2025 NextGen capabilities.
The Flight Deck program provides the research foundation for FAA guidelines, handbooks, advisory circulars, rules, and regulations that help to ensure the safety and efficiency of aircraft operations. It also develops human performance information that the agency provides to the aviation industry for use in designing and operating aircraft and training pilots and maintenance personnel.
Flight Deck researchers work directly with their colleagues in the FAA, other government agencies, academia, and industry to support research and development programs and initiatives such as NASA’s Aviation Safety Program, the FAA Voluntary Safety Program, the FAA/Industry Safer Skies Initiative, and the Congressionally-directed FAA Research, Engineering and Development Advisory Committee. Flight Deck researchers also collaborate with industry and other government programs through Joint Safety Analysis Teams and Joint Safety Implementation Teams, the DoD Human Factors Engineering Technical Advisory Group, Aviation Maintenance industry partners, the Society of Automotive Engineers, and via cooperative research agreements with universities and other research organizations.
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