Redesigning Weather-related Training and Testing of General Aviation Pilots: Phase II

The purpose of the research is to conduct a comprehensive review and evaluation of weather-related flight training, testing, and standards for general aviation (GA) pilots using criteria derived from the analysis of factors known to contribute to visual flight rules (VFR) flight into Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) accidents. Also, to develop advanced flight simulation scenarios, based on known VFR flight into IMC accident profiles, to empirically train, test and evaluate the skills of VFR-only pilots in applying basic weather knowledge.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: Aviation Grants

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $557000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  2007-G-013

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration

  William J. Hughes Technical Center, Atlantic City International Airport
  Atlantic City, NJ  United States  08405
• Project Managers:

  McCloy, Tom

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Wisconsin, Madison

  Madison, WI  United States  53706
• Principal Investigators:

  Wiegmann, Douglas

• Start Date: 20070824
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• Source Data: RiP Project 40030

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pilots; Air transportation crashes; Flight simulators; Flight training; Visual flight; Weather conditions
• Uncontrolled Terms: Instrument meteorological conditions
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Education and Training; Safety and Human Factors; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01569507
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 2007-G-013
• Files: RIP
• Created Date: Jul 15 2015 1:01AM