ABSTRACT
One of the principal concerns with the introduction of airborne separation assistance authority and its applications, as proposed in future air traffic management, is the possibility of adverse changes on the cognitive and behaviour processes of the human operators, mainly air traffic controllers and pilots. The delegation processes of the four applications of airborne separation assistance – traffic situation awareness application, limited, extended and full delegation all have implications that reflect a significant change in the way that pilots and controllers will perform their respective tasks. In devolving to pilots more responsibility for maintaining safe separation it will be necessary to ensure that the changes do not increase pilots’ demands beyond their human performance limit.
This paper describes the approach used in developing, expanding and creating the quantitative framework for the development of Multi-criteria Analysis for Pilot Evaluation, MpE a computational decision support tool. for the determination of the impact and consequential changes in pilot’s operations during applications of airborne separation assistance. The implementation of the model is based on the expansion of the descriptors of change, termed determinants of MACE [(Muti-criteria Analysis for concept Evaluation, Eurocontrol 2000).
