.................................................................................................................. 5 2.0 Background Information ........................................................................................................................ 7 2.1 Steam Gauge Cockpits ........................................................................................................................... 7 2.2 Glass Cockpits ....................................................................................................................................... 8 3.0 Methodology ......................................................................................................................................... 9 . 3.1 Primary Research ................................................................................................................................... 9 3.2 Secondary Research ............................................................................................................................... 9 3.3 Limitations ............................................................................................................................................. 9 5.0 Analysis...
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...Flying a Boeing 737 Jet The youngest pilot in the world is He Yide ( age 5). From china, he managed to complete a 35 minute flight without any assistance. This proves that being a pilot is very easy, it just looks complicated. Pilots who know what they’re doing will describe flying “As easy as 1, 2, 3”. For example, a Boeing 737 jet is a very easy plane to fly. Flying such a plane separates into 6 categories: Throttle control, Taxiing/ Take Off, Reading Computer Panels, Flaps, Landing/ Approach Speeds, and Reverse Engine Thrusters. 1. Throttle Control The throttle is the most important part of a plane. The throttle controls the speed that the plane goes at, and how long the flight will be. The captain, and only the captain can control the...
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...AIAA-2005-0001 The Impact of Information Technologies on Air Transportation R. John Hansman* Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139, USA The Air Transportation System and several key subsystems including the Aircraft, Airline, and Air Traffic Management are modeled as interacting control loops. The impact of Information Technologies on each of these subsystems is evaluated through the performance of these control loops. Information technologies are seen to have a significant impact on the safety, efficiency, capability, capacity, environmental impact and financial performance of the Air Transportation System and its components. T Introduction he US and International Air Transportation Systems have demonstrated remarkable growth and increased performance over the past few decades. Fig.1 demonstrates the growth in passenger and cargo traffic in international regions since 1972. Strong growth can be seen in North America and Europe which continue to dominate the passenger traffic. In addition, extraordinary growth can be seen in Asia/Pacific which has dominated the cargo traffic since the early 1990’s. Scheduled Revenue Passenger-Kilometers by Region 1400 1200 1000 RPK (billion) North America Europe Freight Tonne-Kilometers by Region 45 40 35 North America 30 FTK (billion) Europe Asia and Pacific Latin America & Caribbean Middle East Africa 800 600 400 200 0 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 Asia and Pacific Latin America...
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...units, a DM 451 Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) system, and dual FCDM/SMD-45 systems. The final configuration for this aircraft allows Single Pilot/Dual Pilot Instrument Flight Rules (SP/DPIFR) with NMS1-2 switching capable of GPS display on either FCDM/SMD-45 system. The specific aircraft that was used for the initial STC work had several items of equipment that were installed outside of the Type Certificated option choices. As a result, the aircraft pre-modification configuration for the prototype installation of the STC was very different from the Type Certificated options pre-modification configuration. The revision of the STC to account for the configuration differences is required in order to allow for a broader aircraft serial number applicability baseline. A large number of MBB-BK 117C-2 aircraft serial numbers have no provisions for display of the #1 GPS on the FCDM/SMD-45 systems since the NMS1-2 switching option was not installed in these aircraft. The baseline MBB-BK 117C-2 aircraft GPS system status annunciator location are not within the primary field of view of the flight crew as defined in FAA guidance material. This has important implications to be detailed later in this document. There are further issues with the certification basis and physical location of the GPS antennas. The Flight Manual Supplement for the existing EC-145 STC for WAAS implementation places a temperature limitation of “ISA+29°C, limited to +44°C” on the aircraft. This limitation is due...
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...1. Identify the entities and their relationships. Then create an ERD for the reservations system. 2. Create 3NF table designs for the system. 3. For each of the entities identified, design tables and identify the possible candidate keys, the primary key, a probable foreign key, and potential secondary keys. 4. Use sample data to populate the fields for three records. Data items must include reservation number, Route Number, Date, Origin, Destinations, Departure Time, Arrival Time, Passenger Name, and Seat Number. For example, Route 97 leaves Monroe, VA, daily at 8:00 a.m. and arrives in Spencer, VA, 100 miles away, at 11:00 a.m. Scenic wants to use an alphabetic reservation code, similar to the codes that airlines use. SOLUTION 1. A sample ERD follows. Note that the RESERVATION CODE DATA entity might store data about the Reservation Code, Date, Route Number, Passenger Name, and Seat Number. The ROUTE DATA entity might store data about the Route Number, Origin, Destination, Departure Time, and Arrival Time. 2. Sample 3NF table designs follow: ROUTE DATA (ROUTE NUMBER, ORIGIN, DESTINATION, DEPART TIME, ARRIVE TIME) RESERVATION DATA (RESERVATION CODE, DATE, ROUTE NUMBER, FLIGHT NUMBER, FLIGHT DATE, PASSENGER NAME, and SEAT NUMBER) PASSENGER NAME (PASSENGER NUMBER, PASSENGER LAST NAME, PASSENGER FIRST NAME) 3. See the answer to Task 4. 4. The solutions for Tasks 3 and 4 have been combined. The first part of the solution shows the table design and...
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...Design a dynamic Database System for LAN Airlines flights booking system. 2. Problem Statement The current process of LAN Airlines when it comes to storing data such as flights booking, passenger information and routes information, it is only done with flight tracking purposes. At the marketing level the information that this database is intended to store is crucial to identify the market trend and being able to develop the most accurate marking strategy. 3. Solution Statement To design a Content Management System that will allow: a. Allow easy tracking for all types of data related to flights, ,routes, booking, and passenger information b. Integrating all necessary data to obtain meaningful information relevant to the marketing process. This including most profitable routes, nationality of passengers from the different routes, age of passenger, source of booking etc. Specifically, routes From Miami to Bogota, Quito, Buenos Aires, Sao Pablo, Lima, Santiago, La Paz, and Guayaquil. 4. Database Information Table Name | Description | Primary Key | Foreign Key | Airplane | Describe plane’s attributes | RegistNum | | Flight | Provides information about routes | FlightNum | AirCraftMod | Booking | Booking attributes for passengers | ReservationID | FlightNum | Passenger | Passengers’ profile | PassengerID | ReservationID | 5. Normalize tables Airplane (RegistNum, AircraftMod,Capacity) Flights (FlightNum, AircraftMod, DEPTairport, ARRVLairport...
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...REQUIRED NAVIGATION PERFORMANCE/AREA NAVIGATION GUIDE ANNEXURE – 4 ARINC 424 Path terminators ARINC. Formally known as the Air Radio Corporation of America. ARINC424, the industry standard for the transmission of aeronautical information databases for aircraft flight management system (FMS) use. Path and Terminator (“Path Terminator”). A two-letter code, which defines a specific type of flight path along a segment of a procedure and a specific type of termination of that flight path. Path terminators are assigned to all RNAV, SID, STAR and Approach Procedure segments in an airborne navigation database. Formal Description: (Way point) (Underlined) denotes ‘fly-over’. (Way point) (not underlined) denotes ‘fly-by’ or RF waypoint as appropriate. To (waypoint) denotes a TF path terminator. To (Waypoint) on course XXX denotes a CF path terminator. Direct to (way point) denotes a DF path terminator. (Waypoint) {R,NN,N,LatLong} denotes an RF path terminator, the radius and the centre point of a fixed radius turn in terminal airspace. Climb on track XXX, at or above YYY feet turn right/left denotes and FA path terminator. From (Waypoint) to XXX feet on track XXX denotes an FA Path terminator. Climb on heading XXX, at or above YYY feet turn left/right denotes a VA path terminator. From (waypoint) to XXXX feet on heading XXX denotes a VA path terminator. Continue on heading XXX denotes a VM path terminator. Continue on track XXX denotes...
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...AVIATION SAFETY PROGRAM EASTERN SKY AIRLINES DIEGO LUIS PALACIN ENDERS INDEX 1. SECTION ONE: SAFETY POLICY 2. SECTION TWO: SAFETY AND HEALTH RESPONSIBILITIES 3. SECTION THREE: EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION 4. SECTION FOUR: SAFETY RULES AND REGULATIONS 5. SECTION FIVE: DISCILINARY POLICY 6. SECTION SIX: HAZARD RECOGNITION, PREVENTION AND CONTROL 7. SECTION SEVEN: ACCIDENT/INCIDENT REPORTING 8. SECTION EIGHT: EMERGENCY PLANING AND RESPONSE 9. SECTION NINE: SAFETY AND HEALTH TRAINING AND EDUCATION 10. SECTION TEN: SAFETY AND HEATH ASSISTANCE RESOURCES 11. SECTION ELEVEN: CONTACT INFORMATION SECTION ONE SAFETY POLICY Safety is a team effort – Let us all work together to keep this a safe and healthy workplace Eastern Sky Airlines places high value on the safety of its employees and passengers. Eastern Sky Airlines is committed to providing a safe workplace for all employees and has developed this Aviation Safety Program for injury and accident prevention to involve management, supervisors, and employees in identifying and eliminating or reducing hazards that may develop during ground or air operations. Eastern Sky Airlines Safety Program objective is to create a safety culture in which we stress to all employees that safety is as important as any other business function. Only thought the joint commitment on the part of management and employees can workplace accidents and injuries be reduced or eliminated. Employees should be encouraged to not only work safely...
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...that work correctly we often need to understand and correct how they can go wrong” ( Dan Goldin, NASA Administrator, 2000). This paper illustrates the mechanical failures that occur with the manufacturing of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The risk shows possible adverse impact on the two-fault tree analysis presented. Fault tree one looks at risk concerning on boarding flight controls and fault tree two looks at the filtration system aboard the 787 Dreamliner. Fault Tree 1-Onboard Flight Control Failure Boeing, based out of Everett, Washington, has contracted with an outside company by the name of Green Hills Software of Santa Barbara. Green Hills assignment, for all of the 787’s is to “write the operating system for the onboard flight-control computers” (Hisey, 2007). The company prides its self on creating operating systems that never crash. This part of manufacturing the Dreamliner was outsourced from Honeywell, the company that performs a major portion of software configuration for Boeing, because Honeywell does no specialize in airplane operating systems. The intermediate event is the onboard flight control failure. The basic event of failure in a system creates a series of event and possible risk. If the controls are not compatible with the...
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...substantive tests for each assertion, and organize audit procedures into an effective and efficient audit program. Keywords: auditing; e-ticket revenue; collaborative learning; electronic evidence; internal control; monitoring; systems expertise for auditing. OVERVIEW ly Airline's revenue generation begins when a customer selects a flight for a specific date and time. The process is similar whether a ticket agent or the customer interacts with the system to make the reservation. If the customer is paying with a credit card, the system validates the credit card number the customer presents for billing before making the reservation. When it obtains approval of the credit charge (electronically, from the card issuer), the system records the charge and other details of the reservation. The customer gets a confirmation number and itinerary immediately, and gets a boarding pass at the gate only by presenting picture identification. Daily, the system batches each day's charges by credit card issuer and transmits them electronically to credit card issuers. Until a flight occurs, ticket sales are recorded as unearned revenue. After a flight, the system records earned revenue based on...
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... Nieuwenhuys for easyJet Flight Operations – please do not distribute this document outside easyJet) Airline pilots were once the heroes of the skies. Today, in the quest for safety, airplanes are meant to largely fly themselves. Which is why the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447, which killed 228 people, remains so perplexing and significant. William Langewiesche explores how a series of small errors turned a state-‐of-‐ the-‐art cockpit into a death trap. TROUBLE AHEAD Inside the automated cockpit of an Airbus A330—like the one belonging to Air France that crashed into the equatorial Atlantic in 2009. 1 I. Into the Night On the last day of May in 2009, as night enveloped the airport in Rio de Janeiro, the 216 passengers waiting to board a flight to Paris could not have...
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...Table of Contents Executive Summary ………………………………………………... 1.0 Introduction ……………………………………………………… 1.1 Objectives of Sales Promotion Campaign …………………. 1.2 Customers to be Targeted ……………………………………. 1.3 Series of Consumer-Oriented Promotions ………………... 1.4 Trade-Oriented Promotions ………………………………….. 1.5 Communication Consideration………………………………. 1.6 Budgetary Considerations …………………………………… 1.7 Scheduling Considerations ………………………………... 1.8Legal and Logistics Considerations ………………………… 2.0 Appendices ………………………………………….................. 3.0 References ………………………………………………………. Introduction The main aim of this report is to create a 12-month London based sales promotion plan. This will be done by using different amount of factors to determine the best strategy for Virgin Atlantic. These factors will be including the objectives of the company as well as to what type of consumers to target while taking a deep look to budgeting and scheduling details. Since it was established in 1984, Virgin Atlantic Airways has turned into Britain's second biggest bearer serving the world's real urban communities. Presently based at both London's Gatwick and Heathrow air terminals, it works whole deal administrations to thirty destinations worldwide as far separated as Las Vegas and Shanghai. Virgin Atlantic has delighted in tremendous prevalence, winning top business, shopper and exchange grants from around the globe. The aircraft...
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...Chris Hector, John Moran Current seating offered on the 737-500. Flight crew of two; Typical two class seating for 108 (eight first-class and 100 economy), or max single class seating for 132 @ 30 inch pitch. Blue Star Examining the Past, Looking toward the Future. The original Blue Star Airlines was founded on October 13, 1992 by investor I. Gotta Lottabucks. Recognized as a post-Deregulation start-up, the airline commenced operations in 1992; quickly became known for its friendly employees and attentive service. Blue Star's bright blue-starred tail Boeing 737-500s served various business and leisure destinations on the eastern US Coast. The airline purchased a hub operation at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in 1993. Blue Star's arrival at RDU coincided with the closure of the American Airlines hub there. Blue Star undertook major growth plans at RDU, taking over many of American Airlines' former hub routes, and hiring large numbers of new employees, the majority of who resided in the RDU area. At the height of its operations, Blue Star offered almost 200 flights daily from RDU to 25 destinations on the East Coast, was used by many passengers travelling between the Northeast and Southeast, and began RDU's first nonstop flights to U.S. West Coast destinations. Blue Star was popular with flyers thanks to its friendly and enthusiastic flight crews, new aircraft, easy connecting flights at the RDU Hub, leather seating and its signature "hot towels and mints...
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...QUICK TEST PROFESSIONAL 11 Table of Contents 1 Session 1 INTRODUCTION TO QTP 9.5 3 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Add-ins in 9.5 3 1.3 Use of Addins 3 1.4 Add-in Manager 4 1.5 Benefits of Automated Testing: 4 1.6 The 7 phases of QTP 5 1.6.1 Preparing to record 5 1.6.2 Recording a session on your application 5 1.6.3 Enhancing your test 6 1.6.4 Debugging your test 6 1.6.5 Running your test 6 1.6.6 Analysing the test results 6 1.6.7 Reporting defects 6 1.7 QTP Main Window 7 2 Recording Modes and Run Modes 11 2.1 Major steps before scripting 11 2.2 Exercise 11 2.3 Recording Modes 12 2.3.1 Normal 12 2.3.2 Analog 12 2.3.3 Low Level 14 2.4 Run Modes / Execution Modes / Playback Modes 15 2.4.1 Run Mode 15 2.4.2 Maintenance Run Mode 15 2.4.3 Update Mode 16 3 Session 3 17 3.1 Introduction 17 3.2 Object Repository Types 17 3.2.1 Local Object Repository 17 3.2.2 Shared Object Repository 18 3.2.3 How to associate Shared Repository 19 3.3 Object Repository Window 19 3.4 Exporting Local Objects to an Object Repository 20 3.5 Managing Shared Object Repository Associations: 20 3.6 Object Repository Manager 21 3.6.1 Performing Merge Operations 22 4 Section 4: SYNCHRONISING YOUR TEST 25 4.1 Synchronisation Options 25 4.1.1 Modifying Timeout Values 25 4.1.2 Adding Exist and Wait Statements 25 4.1.3 Creating Synchronisation Points 25 4.2 Exercise 26 4.2.1 Using Wait statement...
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...Real-time Business Intelligence: Best Practices at Continental Airlines1 Written by Hugh J. Watson (University of Georgia), Barbara H. Wixom (University of Virginia), Jeffrey A. Hoffer (University of Dayton), Ron Anderson-Lehman (Continental Airlines), and Anne Marie Reynolds(Continental Airlines) Data management for decision support has moved through three generations, with the latest being real-time data warehousing. This latest generation is significant because of its potential for affecting tactical decision making and business processes. Continental Airlines is a leader in real-time business intelligence and much can be learned from how they have implemented it. The movement to real-time is the latest development in business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing. Real-time data warehousing provides the data that is required to implement realtime BI. By moving to real-time, firms can use BI to affect current decision making and business processes. This capability is especially important for customer-facing applications, such as those found in call centers and check-in processes, and helps firms become more customer-centric. Terms such as the “real-time enterprise” and the “zero latency organization” are often used to describe firms that use real-time BI. The purpose of real-time BI is to increase revenues and decrease costs. Companies that successfully implement real-time BI can dramatically improve their profitability. For example, Continental Airlines,...
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