Analysis of controller-pilot communication for future concepts of remote airport control

摘要

The qualitative analysis of radio communication, as the main input device of tower controllers, to provide a reliable air-traffic-control service on an airport are often neglected in simulator studies. A reason for this can be seen in the fact that such data analyses are time consuming and a lot of expert knowledge is needed, to transcript those data sets. Cardosi (1993) used a qualitative approach for controller-pilot communication to investigate readback errors while quantitative data analysis of radio communication data was mainly used to predict workload (Manning et al. 2001). Within this paper the content of radio communication data from Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) simulations is analysed to understand, how the quality of radio communication between tower controllers and pilots is influenced by the simultaneous control of two airports, or rather the blind out of the far view. Radio communication data were gathered and analysed to investigate the influence on errors of confusion (slips), delays due to traffic at the other airport, omission of additional information and requesting of pilot-reports as workload reducing strategies.