Reports
Single-Pilot Workload Management in Entry-Level Jets
DOT/FAA/AM-13/17. Burian, B.K.; Pruchnicki, S.; Rogers, J. et al. U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Aerospace Medicine. September 2013. 127 pp. Appendixes, figures, tables.
This report chronicles a study that examined task and workload management by 14 pilots of entry level jets (also known as very light jets) to evaluate pilot errors during high-workload events.
The researchers — from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Flight Cognition Lab and the FAA Flight Deck Human Factors Research Laboratory at the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute — observed the pilots as they conducted an experimental flight in a Cessna Citation Mustang flight training device.
Eight pilots owned and operated Mustangs, and the ot…
