Earlier research has explored the potential of aircraft-based route conformance monitoring for airport navigation. In this research, the routeconformance monitoring function was hosted on an experimental Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) and evaluated in a simulated operation. A datalink was used to load the route from Air Traffic Control (ATC). The current research addresses the design, integration and evaluation of a manual input option and the comparison with a previously developed voice input option. Results suggest that with the manual input option it is possible to enter the route during its reception (i.e. instructions from ATC via R/T) and perform the readback based on the data presented on the EFB. This way, the integrity of the route used by the conformance-monitoring function is assessed by ATC.

Route (re-)planning requires many numerical computations to be made (e.g. time at destination, remaining range, distance to threats) in order to be able to assess feasibility and compare alternatives,. Nowadays, the required functions to perform these computations are an integral part of route planning tools, leaving the human operator in the role as a decision maker. Research into human decision making in the monetary domain shows that in certain situations, humans tend to be risk averse when it concerns potential gains and risk seeking when it concerns potential losses. The research described in this paper aims to determine to what extent these biases can be found in route-planning related decisions. An experiment has been conducted to compare decision making in the monetary domain with decision making in the military domain. The results concerning the monetary domain were mostly consistent with the expected biases. Especially risk aversion in decisions that imply potential gains showed up clearly in the data. In the military domain, the two most important findings were that decision making is dependent on many factors that do not play a role in monetary decisions. Participants' interpretations of different situations varied greatly, resulting in (close to) fifty-fifty distributions in their preferred answers. However, participants tended to agree more often in cases where the protection or saving of own troops was involved. In these situations, participants displayed risk-seeking behavior to prevent the loss of lives.

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An Electronic Flight Bag showing an ownship referenced airport map, supports the pilot in knowing where the aircraft is with respect to the taxiway and runway structure. However, since the desired route is still implicit, communication errors (e.g. due to misinterpretation) and memorization errors continue to lead to possible navigation error. By integrating the planned route information into the airport map context, the pilot would be supported in knowing where the aircraft is and also where it would have to be. Furthermore, the information can be used by a route conformance monitoring function, to alert the pilot in case of a route deviation, violation of a hold-short instruction, etc. This paper describes the design and initial evaluation of an Electronic Flight Bag with integrated routing, conformance monitoring and runway incursion detection functions.