Browsing Flight Transportation Laboratory Reports by Subject "Air pilots"

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    • Pilot workload in the air transport environment : measurement, theory, and the influence of air traffic control 

      Katz, Jeffrey G. (Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1980], 1980)
      The operating environment of an air transport crew is characterized by multiple interrupting tasks, these tasks being composed of a mixture of purely physical control and purely mental planning processes. Measurement of ...

    • Toward the definition and measurement of the mental workload of transport pilots 

      Sheridan, Thomas B.; Simpson, R. W. (Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1979], 1979)
      This report describes work performed in the first year of a continuing research project aimed at developing useful methods for measuring the workload of pilots operating aircraft in the ATC system. Good methods of measuring ...