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Air-to-Air Combat Performance: Examining the Relationship Among Fighter Pilot Personal and Career Factors
(2023-05)The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship fighter pilots’ personal and career variables have with respect to their beyond visual range (BVR) air-to-air combat performance. This relationship was ... -
Airline Brand Experience Passengers’ Perceptions of the Big Three Carriers in the United States
(2020-08)The purpose of the study was to observe passengers’ perceptions about brand experience research in the airline industry by applying a transcendental or descriptive phenomenological methodology designed to evaluate interview ... -
Airline Consumer's Perception of Transport Security Administration’s Prohibited Items
(2014-07)There has been limited research conducted and significantly limited scholarly articles on consumer attitudes towards the current TSA prohibited items list. If the research were to be conducted a year after the September ... -
Ascent and Scenario-Based Time of Useful Consciousness (TUC)
(2014-05)The Time of Useful Consciousness (TUC) is a standardized table that has been used by aviation regulatory, safety, and manufacturing organizations for over 50 years to better understand the potential danger of cabin ... -
Assessing the Methodological Quality of Aviation Research: A Content Analysis of Articles Published in Subscription and Open Access Aviation Journals 2014-2016
(2020-12)The purpose of the study was to determine to what extent aviation research articles were consistent with commonly recommended research protocols. Using a purposive sampling strategy, two subscription and five open access ... -
Assessment of the Evolving Low-Cost Business Model for the Future Importance of U.S. Secondary Airports
(2018-05)Airline deregulation caused a profound reshape in the aviation industry. The liberalization of the aviation sector resulted in a favorable environment for the emergence of low-cost carriers (LCCs). Following deregulation, ... -
Assessment of the Skeletonization and Motion Monitoring System for the Security Efficiency of the United States Airports
(2021-12)The screening processes at airports, including passengers and baggage, have changed dramatically in the past twenty years. The goal of the X-ray scanning is to enhance airport screening by preventing passengers from carrying ... -
Aviation Professionalism: Examining the Concept of Professionalism within and between Major Subgroups of the Aviation Industry
(2019-05)The purpose of this study was to conduct a secondary analysis of Alhallaf’s (2016) study on aviation professionalism by disaggregating his data into five subgroups: Aircraft Maintenance Technicians (AMT); Airport Managers ... -
CFIs’ Safety Behaviors at Flight Training Schools: Understanding the Effects of Personality Traits, Self-Efficacy, Risk Perception, and Safety Climate
(2023-05)The purpose of the current study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits, affective domain variables, safety climate, and safety behaviors of certified flight instructors (CFIs). Personality traits ... -
A Comparison of Airline Passengers’ Perception and Attention Toward Onboard Safety Briefing Video Presentations
(2017-05)The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of the type of safety demonstration on a passenger’s perception and attention. Furthermore, the study examined if there are gender differences based on participant ... -
Consumer Likelihood to Complain in the U.S. Commercial Airline Industry
(2016-12)Consumer emotions play an important role in the marketplace nowadays, which can either directly or indirectly affect the marketing outcomes. Consumer complaints are believed to occur if consumers begin to generate negative ... -
Consumer perceptions about pilot training: An emotional response.
(2016-12)Civilian pilot training has followed a traditional path for several decades. With a potential pilot shortage approaching, ICAO proposed a new paradigm in pilot training methodology called the Multi-Crew Pilot License. ... -
Consumers' Level of Trust in Using an Automated Train, Aircraft, or Vehicle as a Transportation Means
(2017-05)Automation is a growing technology within most industries. It is expected that automated systems may replace human functions in the near future. The purpose of this study was to determine whether factors such as: type ... -
Consumers’ Trust in Pilots Based on Pilot’s Preference for use of Breathalyzer in the Cockpit
(2015-05)Trust has been studied across disciplines for years, with the focus looking at trust between individuals, between individuals and organizations, and between organizations (Lee & See, 2004). Establishing trust between ... -
Consumers’ Willingness to Fly in Augmented Cognition Equipped Aircraft
(2017-07)Current advancements in the field of Augmented Cognition have garnered attention from the aviation industry. Equipping flight management systems with Augmented Cognition is a possibility in the near future as the result ... -
Demonstration of Head Mounted Displays and its Effects on Situational Awareness
(2018-02)In this investigation, I discussed the use of Head-Mounted Displayed (HMD) Augmented Reality and its effects on a driver’s Situational Awareness (SA) while observing two driving scenarios. In this study I showed participants ... -
Developing an Automation Locus of Control Scale
(2019-07)The industrial and domestic proliferation of automation is such that it has become a core component of the human experience. Both automation design paradigms and human performance must be scrutinized in order to ensure ... -
Development and Validation of the ITF scale: An investigation of Airline Passengers’ Intention to Fly During a Global Disruption
(2021-07)The purpose of the current study was to develop and validate the ITF scale that measured airline passengers’ intention to fly during a global disruption. Based on the review of the literature, the researcher identified ... -
Disaster Resilience in Air Traffic Control: Recovery of Airspace Activity at U.S. Primary Airports that Experience a Catastrophic Hurricane
(2023-05)The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between U.S. airport characteristics, hurricane strength, and hurricane proximity and the time it takes airspace activity to recover to normal after experiencing ... -
The Effect of Intensive Auditory Cues on Flight Passengers’ Safe Behaviors
(2020-12)When passengers do not follow in-flight announcements, injuries can occur. It is critical to draw passengers’ attention and help them be aware of the importance of the instructions provided during in-flight announcements. ...