Helicopter Operations Weather Information (HOWI)

Helicopter operations are primarily classified within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as FAR Part 135 or General Aviation (GA). Since prior weather-related GA gap analysis funded by the FAA WTIC Program has been conducted by PEGASAS Project 4 (Weather Technology in the Cockpit), this PEGASAS Project has relevance to address weather-related gaps, shortfalls, and causal factors affecting helicopter operations. Beyond this prior gap analysis, there are additional concerns regarding challenges of the rotorcraft flight regime (including wind effects and vertical flight), mission profiles, and flight / landing environments. An initial effort to identify and classify these challenges has begun by PEGASAS research participants, in order to create a Draft Research Project Plan (DRPP) that elaborates and expands previously defined PEGASAS Project 4 gaps. The DRPP will also leverage prior work conducted in two other PEGASAS Project efforts to generate the baseline project research questions, high level schedule, scope, stakeholders and work tasks to successfully accomplish the comprehensive gap analysis project proposed here.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $457633
• Contract Numbers:

  12-C-GA-PU-088

  12-C-GA-GIT-038

  12-C-GA-FIT-031

  12-C-GA-PU-092

  12-C-GA-GIT-042

  12-C-GA-FIT-036

  12-C-GA-FIT-040

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration Office of NextGen Human Factors Division (ANG-C1)

  800 Independence Avenue SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Project Managers:

  Johnson, Ian

• Performing Organizations:

  Purdue University, School of Industrial Engineering

  315 N. Grant Street
  West Lafayette, IN  United States  47907

  Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Aerospace Engineering

  270 Ferst Drive
  Atlanta, GA  United States  30332

  Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne

  105 W University Boulevard
  Melbourne, FL  United States  32901-
• Principal Investigators:

  Caldwell, Barrett

  Mavris, Dimitri

  Carstens, Deborah

• Start Date: 20190926
• Expected Completion Date: 20220831
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Helicopter pilots; Helicopters; Weather
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01742339
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility and Sustainability
• Contract Numbers: 12-C-GA-PU-088, 12-C-GA-GIT-038, 12-C-GA-FIT-031, 12-C-GA-PU-092, 12-C-GA-GIT-042, 12-C-GA-FIT-036, 12-C-GA-FIT-040
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 12 2020 4:37PM