Nextgen Flight Deck Data Comm

Download or read book Nextgen Flight Deck Data Comm written by U.s. Department of Transportation and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data Comm a text-based controller-pilotcommunication system is critical to many NextGen improvements.With DataComm, communication becomesa visual task. Interacting with a visual Data Comm display may yield an unsafe increase in head-down time, particularly for single-pilot operations.This study examined the feasibility of supplementing Data Comm with syntheticspeech.To this end, thirty-two pilots flew two experimental scenariosin a Cessna 172 Flight Training Device. In one scenario, ATC communication was with a text-only Data Comm display, in the other, communication was with a text Data Comm display with synthetic speech that read aloud each message (i.e., text+speech). Pilots heard traffic with similar call signs on the party line and received a conditional clearance (in both scenarios); in either scenario, pilots received a clearance that was countermanded by a live controller. Results indicated that relative tothe text-only display, the text speech display aided single-pilot performance by reducing head-down time, and may have prevented participants from acting early on the conditional clearance.Supplementing text Data Comm with speech did not introduce additional complications: participants were neithermore likely to erroneously respond to similar call signs, nor to ignore a live ATC voice countermand