TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving Pilot/Air Traffic Control Voice Communication in General Aviation
AU - Prinzo, O. Veronika
AU - Morrow, Daniel G.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript preparation supported by NIA Grant AG13936. A longer version of this report appeared as an Office of Aviation Medicine Technical Report (Morrow & Prinzo, 1999). We are grateful to Scott Bickford for coding the ATC/pilot communication transcripts.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The influence of the air traffic control (ATC) message format and message length was investigated on the ability of general aviation pilots to read back ATC instructions. While flying a simulator, 12 pilots heard altitude and radio frequency instructions spoken in grouped format ("forty-one-hundred"), and 12 heard them sequentially ("four-thousand-one-hundred"). Only limited evidence was found that grouped message format improved pilot memory. Specifically, pilots who received altitude and radio frequency instructions in the grouped, rather than the sequential, format produced fewer requests for clarification, especially for longer messages. Pilots were also more likely to read back the grouped instructions in sequential format, suggesting that prior experience with the sequential format influenced pilot communication involving the relatively novel grouped format in this study.
AB - The influence of the air traffic control (ATC) message format and message length was investigated on the ability of general aviation pilots to read back ATC instructions. While flying a simulator, 12 pilots heard altitude and radio frequency instructions spoken in grouped format ("forty-one-hundred"), and 12 heard them sequentially ("four-thousand-one-hundred"). Only limited evidence was found that grouped message format improved pilot memory. Specifically, pilots who received altitude and radio frequency instructions in the grouped, rather than the sequential, format produced fewer requests for clarification, especially for longer messages. Pilots were also more likely to read back the grouped instructions in sequential format, suggesting that prior experience with the sequential format influenced pilot communication involving the relatively novel grouped format in this study.
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U2 - 10.1207/S15327108IJAP1204_2
DO - 10.1207/S15327108IJAP1204_2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038407287
SN - 1050-8414
VL - 12
SP - 341
EP - 357
JO - International Journal of Aviation Psychology
JF - International Journal of Aviation Psychology
IS - 4
ER -