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Airline Operations
Published in Ron Bartsch, International Aviation Law, 2018
An overview of the scope of the responsibilities typically imposed upon the pilot in command or the commander of an aircraft are:start, continuation, diversion and end of a flight by the aircraft;operation and safety of the aircraft during flight time;the safety of persons and cargo carried on the aircraft;the conduct and safety of members of the crew on the aircraft;compliance with any information, instructions or directions relating to the start, continuation, diversion or end of a flight that are made available, or issued, under state aviation regulations; andthe requirements of the operations manual provided by the operator of the aircraft. In all state regulatory regimes, the pilot in command shall have final authority as to the disposition of the aircraft while he or she is in command and for the maintenance of discipline by all persons on board.
chapter thirteen System of air vehicles
Published in Mo Jamshidi, Systems of Systems Engineering, 2017
Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based controllers, who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air. An air traffic controller’s primary task is to separate aircraft to prevent them from coming too close to each other by enforcing lateral, vertical, and longitudinal separation standards. Their secondary tasks include ensuring safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of traffic, and providing information to pilots, such as weather, navigation information, NOTAMs (NOtices To AirMen), and traffic advisories to Visual Flight Rules (VFR) traffic. In many countries, ATC services are provided throughout the majority of airspace, and its services are available to all users (private, military, and commercial). When controllers are responsible for separating some or all aircraft, such airspace is called a controlled airspace in contrast to an uncontrolled airspace, where aircraft may fly without the use of the air traffic control system. Depending on the type of flight and the class of airspace, ATC may issue instructions that pilots are required to follow, or merely flight information (in some countries known as advisories) to assist pilots operating within the airspace. In all cases, the pilot in command has final responsibility for the safety of the flight and may deviate from ATC instructions in an emergency. To ensure communication, all pilots and all controllers everywhere are required to be able to speak and understand English, although they may use any compatible language [10].
Statement of the Problem
Published in Charles E. Billings, Aviation Automation: The Search for A Human-Centered Approach, 2018
Resources available to pilots include their own perceptual, cognitive, social, and psychomotor skills, the knowledge and skills of other flight and cabin crew members, and the knowledge and information possessed by other persons with whom the pilot may be able to communicate, especially airline flight dispatchers who share with the pilots responsibility for the safe planning and conduct of their flights. They are aided by a variety of information sources and control devices, including automated devices, within the aircraft. In aircraft designed for multiple crewmembers, these resources are controlled and managed by a pilot in command (PIC), who is ultimately responsible for safe mission accomplishment.
Evaluation of Playbook Delegation Approach in Human-Autonomy Teaming for Single Pilot Operations
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2021
Güliz Tokadlı, Michael C. Dorneich, Michael Matessa
Pilots indicated the importance of the judgment skills of the autonomous teammate in the decision-making process. In dual-pilot operations, captains (generally the pilot-in-command) are the final decision-makers in the cockpit. However, they often ask for the first officer’s judgment on events before executing decisions. In HAT, pilots were hesitant to have an autonomous copilot make decisions. In general, unless the autonomous copilot can demonstrate human-like communication and judgment skills, the pilots do not foresee that it will function as a teammate.