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Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Under normal circumstances, a test specimen is reported as "negative" when the response of the analyte is absent. However, if the intensity of the internal standard (IS) is low, indicating interference factors, the test could be considered "inconclusive." A quantitative hypothesis, A = (RxIxS)/L, serves as the "cutoff" for the acceptable signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio for the IS in making "negative/inconclusive" decisions, where A: acceptable S/N ratio...
Author
Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Federal regulations require airlines to provide safety briefings and briefing cards to inform passengers of routine and emergency safety procedures onboard transport airplanes. The exact content and presentation media used for safety briefings and cards are the responsibility of the airlines to implement, as long as the required minimum safety information is delivered. Consequently, passenger safety briefings and briefing cards vary greatly, and...
Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"An assay using the Federal Bureau of Investigation's human Combined DNA Identity System (CODIS) primers has been developed for polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based human identity testing. Recent forensic literature has identified several human populations that carry a deletion mutation in the Y-chromosome copy of the amelogenin locus. This is the standard locus used for gender determination in CODIS. Additionally, the amelogenin male PCR products...
Author
Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"The Civil Aerospace Medical Institute's toxicology laboratory receives biological specimens from more than 90% of all fatal aviation accidents that occur in the United States and its territories. As a part of the routine analysis of pilot specimens, the laboratory tests all cases for the presence of marijuana (cannabis). The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) reported a 1.5-fold increase...
Author
Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"The outcome of a field evaluation of AeroClave's thermal decontamination system is discussed. This exercise evaluated the system both as a stand-alone technology and as a means of delivering STERIS vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP(R)). The report is submitted in the context of a decontamination technology selection exercise and work conducted on the efficacy of thermal decontamination. The field evaluation, performed on a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 aircraft,...
8) An analysis of the U.S. pilot population from 1983-2005: evaluating the effects of regulatory change
Author
Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The size of the U.S. civil aviator community has been of interest to researchers, policy makers, and special interest groups. A strict definition for membership in the U.S. pilot population was used that was based on Scientific Information System principles. This approach provides methods for scientists to describe, quantify, and predict changes in this population over the 23-year study period. The Bioinformatics Research Team at the Civil Aerospace...
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DOT/FAA/AM volume 09/2
Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Field data and laboratory studies conducted in the 1990s reported the rate of pilot readback errors and communication problems increased as controller transmissions became more complex. This resulted in the recommendation that controllers send shorter messages to reduce the memory load imposed on pilots by complex messages. More than 10 yrs have passed since a comprehensive analysis quantified the types and frequency of readback errors and communication...
Author
Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"This report describes the findings of the third phase of the project sponsored by the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority on "Minimum Color Vision Requirements for Professional Flight Crew." This third part of the project, "Recommendations for New Color Vision Standards, " involved collaboration and co-sponsorship by the Federal Aviation Administration. Minimum color vision requirements for professional flight crew have been established by assessing...
Author
Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"This is the third and final report in a series that examined communications between pilots and air traffic controllers during en route operations. The first report examined message complexity and message length as factors associated with communication problems (e.g., readback errors (RBEs), requests for repeats (RfR), and breakdowns in communication (BIC). The second report examined these same communication problems by differentiating between pilots...
Author
Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Biological samples from the victims of aviation accidents are submitted to the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) for toxicological evaluation. Body components of aviation accident fatalities are often scattered, disintegrated, commingled, contaminated, and/or putrefied at accident scenes. These situations may impose difficulties in victim identification and tissue matching, thereby in the toxicological analysis of authentic samples and the...
Author
Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A flight experiment was conducted to assess human factors issues associated with pilot use of traffic displays for approach spacing. [snip] Pilots successfully used the displays to maintain the assigned spacing on visual and instrument approaches. The spacing deviations were significantly lower when using the displays during visual approaches than when attempting to maintain spacing without a traffic display. [snip] While the traffic display reduced...
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Series
Centennial of flight volume no. 15
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Author
Series
DOT/FAA/AM volume 08/23
Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"For manned aircraft, the presence of multi-sensory inputs is a given. Pilots of manned aircraft might not even be aware of the availability of several different types of sensory inputs occurring at the same time. However, it is likely that each type of input has a reinforcing effect on the others that allows for a rapid diagnosis and response of both normal and unusual events in the cockpit. The situation for the pilot of an Unmanned Aircraft System...
19) Postmortem concentrations of Tramadol and O-Desmethyltramadol in 11 aviation accident fatalities
Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Tramadol is a centrally acting analgesic used to treat moderate-to-severe pain. Side effects of this medication include dizziness, confusion, drowsiness, seizures, and respiratory depression. Any of these side effects could negatively affect a pilot's performance and become a factor in an aviation accident. Due to the severity of aviation accidents, blood samples are often not available, and frequently, only tissue specimens are available for analysis....
Author
Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"In 1998, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) took a heightened interest in the role of language in airline accidents. Its Air Navigation Commission was directed to complete the task of strengthening relevant ICAO provisions concerning language requirements. Member states agreed to take steps to ensure air traffic control (ATC) personnel and flight crews involved in flight operations in airspace where the use of the English language...