ANALYSIS OF TOWER (LOCAL) CONTROLLER - PILOT VOICE COMMUNICATIONS

The purposes of this analyses were to examine current pilot-controller communication practices in the local control (tower) environment and to analyze the communication errors in detail. Forty-nine hours of voice tapes from ten Air Traffic Control Towers (ATCTs) were examined. There were 11,234 controller-to-pilot transmissions in this sample. This included 8,444 messages of substance (e.g., clearance to takeoff or land, instructions to hold short or change radio frequencies, etc.) and 2,790 requests to information, salutations, etc.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also PB93-189702 and AD-A283 718-5. Sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC. Research and Development Service.
• Corporate Authors:

  Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142
• Authors:
  • Cardosi, K M
• Publication Date: 1994-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 32 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic; Air traffic control; Communication and control; Communication systems; Speech; Voice communication
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00677974
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-VNTSC-FAA-94-11, DOT-FAA-RD-94-15
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 24 1995 12:00AM