International - Aviation Safety Network

"Providing everyone with a (professional) interest in aviation with up-to-date, complete and reliable authoritative information on airliner accidents and safety issues".

USA - NTSB: National Transportation Safety Board

Descriptions of more than 140,000 aviation accidents - search capability available

France - BEA: Bureau D'enquetes et D'analyses

By using the search engine, you can consult and download BEA investigation reports, and, for some, the translation into a foreign language. These documents are published since 1992 are available.

UK - Air Accidents Investigation Branch

The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is part of the Department for Transport and is responsible for the investigation of civil aircraft accidents and serious incidents within the UK.

Australia - ATSB: Australian Transport Safety Bureau

The ATSB contributes to transport safety by independently investigating, analysing and openly reporting on transport safety matters. For further information, follow this link.

> Extended List of Other National Incident/Accident Databases >> click >>

ASI Resources

LiveATC.net Feed Map

LiveATC.net is a growing site geared to providing you with a sampling of live ATC radio traffic from around the world. We are always looking for volunteers to put new locations on the air (see the Help Wanted section). We concentrate on providing ATC audio streams with high sound quality using MP3 streaming audio technology.

LIVE Air Traffic Control ATC monitoring.

LIVE* Monitoring of the Busiest En Route Air Traffic Control Corridor in the world:  the Northeast Atlanta Arrival - and LIVE* monitoring of the Atlanta Terminal Approach Control and Atlanta Tower servicing the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta Georgia USA.

A Radio To Hear ATC

Los Angeles International Airport - AirportMonitor

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is the #1 international gateway to Asia/Pacific. LAX is served by nearly 90 passenger and cargo airlines, and contributes more than $60 billion annually to the Southern California economy.

> Top 20 LiveATC.net Feeds >> click >>

This site was launched as a resource for those who enjoy listening to live Air Traffic Control (ATC)...aviation enthusiasts, student pilots, student air traffic controllers, flight simulation enthusiasts, FBO operators, airline operators, and anyone with an interest in aviation communications.

UK - CHIRP: Confidential Human Factors Reporting Programme

The aim of the UK Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting Programme, known by the acronym CHIRP, is to contribute to the enhancement of flight safety in the UK commercial and general aviation industries, by providing a totally independent confidential (not anonymous) reporting system for all individuals employed in or associated with these industries.

NASA FAA ASRS: Aviation Safety Reporting System

ASRS's database includes the narratives submitted by reporters (after they have been sanitized for identifying details). These narratives provide an exceptionally rich source of information for policy development, human factors research, education, training, and more. The database also contains coded information by expert analysts from the original report which is used for data retrieval and analyses.

Australia - REPCON: Confidential Reporting Scheme

REPCON is a voluntary confidential reporting scheme for aviation. REPCON allows any person who has an aviation safety concern to report it to the ATSB confidentially. Protection of the reporter’s identity is a primary element of the scheme.

> ICAO - Extensive listing of international sites >> click >>

This directory aims to provide a wide range of links to sites of interest to the civil aviation community. Inclusion in the list does not mean that ICAO endorses either the sources or the information therein. All entries are subject to change or removal without prior notice.

USA - Bureau of Transportation Statistics

TranStats is a new website for transportation researchers and analysts, aimed at providing “one stop shopping” for transportation data.  The premise is fairly simple:  By reducing the time needed for data gathering, more time is available for analysis.  And by providing easy linkages across many data sets, we can help achieve new insights.  Ultimately, this should result in more timely and more informed decisions, and a better transportation system.

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As researchers and designers, we identify patterns and leverage new technologies to support dynamic decision making in the face of anomalies, uncertainty, stress, and sometimes intentional deception by adversaries. Cognitive Engineering provides the integrative perspective linking technology and cognitive science with people embedded in fields of practice.  We take a highly interdisciplinary approach integrating computer graphics, multimedia, artificial intelligence, and other technology provides the power for new systems.

Publications MPIK Tuebingen

The institute works in the elucidation of cognitive processes. The departments, "Cognitive Human Psychophysics" (formed in 1993) and "Physiology of Cognitive Processes" (founded in 1997) employ complementary methodological approaches to the systems analysis of complex processes in the brains of primates.

MITRE - Our Work - Technical Papers

MITRE works in the broad domains of aviation, defense and intelligence, and enterprise modernization. Our core areas of expertise, listed below, underlie all these domains.

NASA ICNS Conference 2005: Agenda

The Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, jointly sponsored by government and industry, addresses research and development of integrated CNS technologies for advanced aeronautical digital information systems and applications supporting the future national and global air transportation systems.

The Conference is focused on understanding CNS programs, plans, research and technology, and other relevant issues for both near/mid-term (by 2015) and far-term (beyond 2015) time frames.

Air traffic controller workload: An examination of workload probe

Federal Aviation Administration
Human Factors Research & Engineering Group

ATCSCC Advisory

Welcome to the Air Traffic Control System Command Center's text only real-time airport status page.  This page lists all major U.S. airports that are either experiencing delays or are affected by a traffic management initiative.  Select an airport from the drop-down list to obtain more detailed delay information.

METAR decoding in Europe

The METAR is a report giving the actual weather conditions at an aerodrome at the time of the report. METAR's are issued every 30 minutes during the opening hours of the aerodrome.

Weather for Pilots

To understand the weather we need to know how these meteorological variables are changing and how they relate to one another. To understand these relationships it is best to represent weather variables in a simple graph.

ILS Approaches

But, darn, I found no single site on the web for flight-sim enthusiasts that addresses everything from basic navigation, to low frequency navigation using the NDB (Non Directional Beacon), to VOR navigation, and the full range of instrument approaches. So this is my attempt to fill that void.

ADDS - METARs Java Tool ~ ADDS - METARs Java Tool ~ ADDS - AIRMETs Java Tool

The Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS) makes available to the aviation community text, digital and graphical forecasts, analyses, and observations of aviation-related weather variables. ADDS is a joint effort of NCAR Research Applications Program (RAP), Global Systems Division (GSD) of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Aviation Weather Center (AWC).

http://www.intlaviationstandards.org/
 
The team is charged with developing common taxonomies and definitions for aviation accident and incident reporting systems. Common taxonomies and definitions establish a standard industry language thereby improving the quality of information and communication. With this common language the aviation community's capacity to focus on common safety issues is greatly enhanced.

Catalogue of ICAO Airfields

BACK Aviation Solutions - Fleet PC - Aircraft Types

Fleet-iNET & CD Aircraft Types

FAA - Instrument Procedures Handbook (IPH)

LEX-AERO.COM/DROIT AERIEN

Depuis plus de huit ans, Lex-Aero.com constitue un service de veille et de diffusion consacré au droit aérien communautaire et français en langue française. Lex-Aero.com représente le premier effort systématique et professionnel pour rendre le droit aérien français et communautaire accessible à tous. Déclaration du site Web auprès de la CNIL sous le n° 723595

The Secret Life of the Brain : Episode 1

The history of our quest to understand the brain is certainly as long as human history itself. Use this extensive timeline to meander through some of the high-lights (and low-lights) of this great journey of understanding.

Grand Illusions - Optical Illusions - Section 2

the site for the enquiring mind. There are new and amazing toys in the Toy Collection, all with video clips to show them in action, and a unique collection of toys you can buy in the Toy Shop.

Systems Thinking

Systems thinking offers you a powerful new perspective, a specialized language, and a set of tools that you can use to address the most stubborn problems in your everyday life and work. Systems thinking is a way of understanding reality that emphasizes the relationships among a system's parts, rather than the parts themselves. Based on a field of study known as system dynamics, systems thinking has a practical value that rests on a solid theoretical foundation.

Vision Lecture

CUErgo presents information from research studies and class work by students and faculty in  the Cornell Human Factors and Ergonomics Research Group (CHFERG), directed by Professor Alan Hedge,  in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell University.  CHFERG focuses on ways to enhance usability by improving the ergonomic design of hardware, software, and workplaces, to enhance people's comfort, performance and health in an approach we call  Ergotecture. 

The FOVEOLA, FOVEA AND RETINA of human vision

The retinas of the eyes are very complex structures, both across their surface and in depth. Man-made microcircuits are only approaching this level of complexity at the current time. However, they still lack some of the features of the retina , particularly with regard to the fovea, or central region of the retina. The detailed discussion of the features of the retina will be found in Chapters 3 and 4 of PPOCESSES IN BIOLOGICAL VISION. This webpage will address the following topics:

X Junction Transparency Demo Applet

Psychophysicists have proposed an "atmospheric" model for surface lightness perception. The lightness of a surface patch is interpreted as a combination of the lightness of some underlying surface, and a contribution from an occluding, semitransparent surface.

Luminance Contrast

This page discusses the psychophysical concept of luminance contrast and its use in practical applications.