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Risk prediction method of aircraft hard landing based on flight data
Published in Stein Haugen, Anne Barros, Coen van Gulijk, Trond Kongsvik, Jan Erik Vinnem, Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World, 2018
Liping Zheng, Jinsong Xie, Silin Qian
To ensure flight safety, real-time monitoring of aircraft flight status is required. The aircraft usually contains a Quick Access Record (QAR) for recording flight parameters. The flight parameters reflect real-time status information of the entire flight phase of the aircraft and have high application value in performance testing, accident investigation, flight training and assessment, equipment maintenance and safety monitoring. However, due to the complexity of the flight data and the limitations of the data analysis methods, there is still a more in-depth data development value due to the low utilization of flight data in flight safety early warning.
Hazard Analysis
Published in Mark W. Wiggins, Introduction to Human Factors for Organisational Psychologists, 2022
In the airline industry, Quick Access Recorders (QAR) are employed as an efficient means of identifying hazards that occur during the day-to-day operations of an aircraft (Wang, Zhang, Dong, Sun, & Ren, 2019). In United Airlines, QARs were installed in all Boeing 777 aircraft to monitor a variety of aircraft systems (Phillips, 1996). This originally occurred as part of a broad-based Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) Program initiated by the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States.
Editorial: Ergonomics and Human Factors in Aviation
Published in Ergonomics, 2019
Neville A. Stanton, Wen-Chin Li, Don Harris
Accident reports revealed that landing was the most critical stage in flight operations. Human error is the most significant contribution to aviation safety (Stanton et al. 2009). Many studies have indicated that the pilot is the last defence of safety in flight operations. Currently, there are few pieces of research focussed on the pilot’s performance and operational environment based on real flight data. The Quick Access Recorder (QAR) data can record all kinds of flight and operational parameters of an aircraft. The CAAC regulations require that all commercial aircraft shall install airborne QAR to monitor pilots’ performance and systems’ behaviours. Wang, Zhang, Dong, Sun and Ren (A method of applying flight data to evaluate landing operation Performance) aim to develop a method of evaluating a pilot’s performance during the landing phase using QAR data. The verification process demonstrates that the model is suitable for evaluating landing performance; the extended application shows that this model could be used to forecast potential risks associated with the landing phase across an airline fleet. Furthermore, the model is able to compare the landing performance among different fleets. The Flight Landing Operation Performance Evaluation System (FLOPES) was developed based on the evaluation model. It could be used as a practical tool for airlines to manage landing risk quantitatively and to provide practical support to improve training and safety management systems in aviation.
A Method of Applying Flight Data to Evaluate Landing Operation Performance
Published in Ergonomics, 2019
Lei Wang, Jingyi Zhang, Chuanting Dong, Hui Sun, Yong Ren
The quick access recorder (QAR) is a tool that can collect all kinds of aircraft parameter data in flight easily. QAR includes airborne equipment for gathering data and a ground station in airline base for storing and analysing flight data (Wang et al. 2017). The QAR can record most of the performance parameters, pilot operation parameters and environmental features during flight. Nowadays, most of airborne QARs can collect flight data with sampling frequency of 16 Hz. The flight operation quality monitoring of China civil aviation is at the forefront of the world. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) initiated flight data application in 1997 and has enforced the program of Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) over 20 years. The CAAC regulations require that all commercial aeroplanes operated by Chinese airlines should install an airborne QAR equipment or similar equipment based on requirements of regulations. The practice of CAAC has proved that QAR data are useful for improving flight safety. Based on requirements of related operational rules and regulations, commercial airlines always use flight QAR data to monitor and analyse aircraft and pilot operation performance in flight (Wang et al. 2017). It can help pilots and operator groups improve performance and safety. According to the procedure of FOQA, QAR Exceedance Event is defined as a flight parameter value exceeds the prescriptive normal range. Exceedance event happened frequently but easily fell into neglect by pilots. Though exceedance events usually do not lead to serious consequences, actually they do increase the probability of an accident and produce potential harm to landing gear system, airframe and even passengers.