The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) performing delegated separation in the national airspace system (NAS). Delegated separation is the transfer of responsibility for maintaining separation between aircraft or vehicles from air navigation service providers to the relevant pilot or flight operator. The effects of delegated separation and traffic display information level were collected through performance, workload, and situation awareness measures. The results of this study show benefits related to the use of conflict detection alerts being shown on the UAS operator's cockpit situation display (CSD), and to the use of full delegation. Overall, changing the level of separation responsibility and adding conflict detection alerts on the CSD was not found to have an adverse effect on performance as shown by the low amounts of losses of separation. The use of conflict detection alerts on the CSD and full delegation responsibilities given to the UAS operator were found to create significantly reduced workload, significantly increased situation awareness and significantly easier communications between the UAS operator and air traffic controller without significantly increasing the amount of losses of separation.
Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Delegation of Separation in NextGen Airspace
2014
57 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Aircraft , Test Facilities & Equipment , Transportation Safety , Air Transportation , National airspace system , Unmanned aircraft systems , Display devices , Air traffic controllers (personnel) , Feasibility analysis , Air traffic control , Air navigation , Satellite navigation systems , Collision avoidance , Warning systems , Flight management systems , Accident prevention , Situational awareness , Performance tests , Operator performance , Workloads (psychophysiology)
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