ABSTRACT
The next generation of the airspace program in the US (NextGen) calls for a variety of new concepts of operations as well as supporting technologies, such as self-separation, data-linked messages, closely spaced parallel operations and so forth (FAA, 2013). Naturally it is critical that such features preserve safety, even as they will increase efficiency. Traditionally, assessments of safety and efficiency of new technology and procedures is accomplished by human-in-the-loop (HITL) simulation, yielding results based on response time, errors, workload, and more recently, situation awareness (Strybel, Vu, Battise, & Johnson, 2013). However it is also well understood that such HITL simulations can be extremely time consuming, expensive, and often lacking in statistical power because of a small sample size, since highly qualified line pilots are often difficult to engage for participation in long experiments.
