Increasing Operator Situational Awareness During Transition Procedures for Fixed-Wing VTOL UAV Operations

Dollinger, Daniel; Marvakov, Valentin A.; Holzapfel, Florian

doi:10.2514/6.2021-1179

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“…In our eyes, the role of such reduced, task-based displays should be revisited for SVO-based eVTOL operation. In such conditions, flight phase-dependent information displays could have a significant advantage: the control scheme of the aircraft can change dramatically while maintaining an intuitive approach [49][50][51]. For such a concept, staying with the same information representation for the entire mission could lead to mode confusion, endangering the pilot and the aircraft.…”

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What Do You Need? Information Requirements and Task Analysis of (Future) Advanced Air Mobility Pilots in the Emergency Medical Service

Janetzko,

Kacem

2024

Aerospace

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In the domain of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), Simplified Vehicle Operations (SVOs) promise a reduction in handling complexity and training time for pilots. Designing a usable human–machine interface (HMI) for pilots of SVO-enabled aircraft requires a deep understanding of task and user requirements. This paper describes the results of two user research methods to gather these requirements. First, a traditional Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) mission was examined using a Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA). The findings were used to formulate a theoretical HTA for a single-piloted electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) system in such a scenario. In the second step, qualitative interviews with seven subject matter experts (pilots and paramedic support) in HEMS operations produced vital user requirements for HMI development. Key findings emphasize the necessity of a simplified information presentation and collision avoidance support in the HMI.

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