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Effect of Job Stress on Job Satisfaction of Flight Instructors at Aviation Training Centers (전문교육기관 비행교관의 직무스트레스가 직무만족에 미치는 영향)

  • Yeonsung Kim;Moojin Kwon;Jang Ryong Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.105-115
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    • 2023
  • Flight instructors at aviation training centers are exposed to various stresses, such as stress caused by special work environments, stress caused by working conditions, and stress related to uncertain future airline employment. These stresses are expected to not only affect flight safety, but also adversely affect the job satisfaction of flight instructors, and consequently negatively affect the performance of high-quality flight education. Therefore, this study was conducted to understand the effects of these stresses on the job satisfaction of flight instructors by examining the stress experienced by flight instructors in flight, psychological, and physical aspects based on the results of previous studies on stress. To the end, this study conducted a survey of flight instructors belonging to aviation training centers, and as a result of analyzing the collected data, it was confirmed that the physical stress of flight instructors had a significant negative effect on their job satisfaction.

A Plight Test Method for the System Identification of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (무인항공기의 시스템 식별을 위한 비행시험기법)

  • Lee, Youn-Saeng;Suk, Jin-Young;Kim, Tae-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.30 no.7
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    • pp.130-136
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, a flight test method is described for the system identification of the unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with an automatic flight control system. Multistep inputs are applied for both longitudinal mode and lateral/directional excitation. Optimal time step for excitation is sought to provide the broad input bandwidth. A programmed mode flight test method provides high-quality flight data for system identification using the flight control computer with the longitudinal and lateral/directional autopilot which enables the separation of each motion during the flight test. In addition, exact actuating input that is almost equivalent to the designed one guarantees the highest input frequency attainable. Several repetitive flight tests were implemented in the calm air in order to extract the consistent system model for the air vehicle. The enhanced airborne data acquisition system endowed the high-quality flight data for the system identification. The flight data were effectively used to the system identification of the unmanned aerial vehicle.

A meta-analytic study on flight data monitor of pilot's flight deviation parameters by flight simulation (비행시뮬레이션을 통한 비행규격 이탈의 메타분석)

  • Sin, Hyon-Sam;Song, Byung-Heum;Lim, Se-Hoon;Byeon, Soon-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.63-71
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    • 2008
  • This study was conducted with respect to the causal factors revealed through the investigation of the recent airlines aircraft crash accident which occurred while aircraft was on the climb-out or on the final approach. This study also highlighted the importance of flight deviation and exceedance occurrences in consideration of Flight Operational Quality Assurance Program(FOQA). Twenty airline pilots participated in the flight experiment to perform ten(10) sets of simulated approaches and landings. As a result, Twelve(12) kinds of deviation events were discovered. In this respect, The FOQA program must be fully implemented to prevent any flight safety incident under the auspices of the Korea domestic aviation community as well.

Neural Networks Based Adaptive Flight Controller Design and Handling Quality Evaluation for Tiltrotor Aircraft (신경회로망을 이용한 틸트로터 항공기의 적응 비행제어기 설계 및 비행성 평가)

  • Lee, Ki Young;Kim, Byoung Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2013
  • An application of adaptive flight controller is required for the non-linear and high uncertain system that configuration of tiltrotor aircraft is dramatically changed from rotary wing mode to fixed wing mode. In this paper, the applicable adaptive controller for the tiltrotor aircraft was designed using Neural Networks and DMI (Dynamic Model Inversion). The performance of the SCAS (Stability and Control Augmentation System) was simulated against manned military specification, using the fullscale model of 'Smart UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)' developed by Korea Aerospace Research Institute. And Neural Networks based adaptive controller was verified through its whole operating envelope using the established HQ (Handling Quality) criteria.

Helicopter FBW Flight Control Law Design for the Handling Quality Performance (비행조종성능을 위한 헬리콥터 FBW 비행제어법칙 설계)

  • Choi, In-Ho;Kim, Eung-Tai;Hyun, Jung-Wook
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.1561-1567
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    • 2013
  • This paper is regarding the helicopter flight control law design for the handling quality performance. MIL-F-83300 and ADS-33E specification is used of the helicopter flight handling quality and to meet these requirements, ACAH type controller is required. This paper described the ACAH type controller design and performance evaluations. Helicopter dynamics first developed as nonlinear dynamics including rotor dynamics and then linear model was extracted from hovering to forward flight mode using trim condition. Control law used the model following to meet the handling qualities, the simple inverse model as feed forward gain, decoupling logic and phase model to decouple the axes, and linear model to calculate the coefficients. Handling quality evaluation used the matlab based Conduit tool and verified that Level 1 requirement is satisfied.

A Study on Aircraft Sensitivity Analysis for Supersonic Air-Data Error at Low Altitude (공기정보 오차에 의한 저고도 초음속 영역에서의 민감도 해석에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Chong-Sup;Hwang, Byung-Moon;Kim, Seong-Youl;Kim, Seong-Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.33 no.11
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    • pp.80-87
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    • 2005
  • T-50 supersonic jet trainer aircraft using digital flight-by-wire flight control system receives aircraft flight conditions such as altitude, VCAS(Calibrated Airspeed) and Angle of Attack from IMFP(Integrated Multi-Function Probe). IMFP sensors information have triplex structure using three IMFP sensors. Air-data selection logic is mid-value selection in three information from three IMFP sensors in order to have more reliability. From supersonic flight test at high altitude, air-data information is dropped simultaneously because of supersonic shock wave effect. This error information may affect to aircraft stability and safety in supersonic area at low altitude. This paper propose that sensitivity analysis and HQS(Handling Quality Simulator) pilot simulation in order to analyze flight stability and controllability in supersonic area at low altitude when these information is applied to flight control law.

A Study on Flight Data Analysis & Animation System Development

  • Kim, Jae-Hyung;Shin, Sung-Sik
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.56.6-56
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    • 2001
  • The FDAS(Flight Data Analysis & Animation System) is a comprehensive analysis system designed for the improvement of flight safety. FDAS provides decoding, analysis and animation tools that can be used for investigation of data origination primarily from Flight Data Recoders(FDRs), Quick Access Recoders(QARs), Using FOQA(Flight Operation Quality Assurance) Data Analysis, an analyst can perform a variety of functions including data smoothing, interpolation, differentiation, integration, calculator function, flight path generation, performance routines, as well as user-programmed functions. Utilizing data captured and processed by our FDAS software module, FDAS provides high-fidelity 3-D aircraft views and instruments views. Multiple windows enable you to view the situation from a variety of perspectives, including out-of-window, chase plane ...

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Design of a Variable Stability Flight Control System

  • Park, Sung-Su;Ko, Joon-Soo
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.162-168
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    • 2008
  • A design objective for variable stability flight control system is to develop a controller of in-flight simulation capability that forces the aircraft being flown to follow the dynamics of other aircraft. This paper presents a model-following variable stability control system (VSS) for in-flight simulation which consists of feedforward and feedback control laws, the aircraft dynamic model to be simulated, and switching and fader logics to reduce the transient effect between two aircraft dynamics. The separate design techniques for feedforward and feedback control law proposals are based on model matching and augmented linear quadratic (LQ) techniques. The system allows pilots to select and engage VSS mode, and when deselected, the aircraft reverts to the baseline flight control system. Both the baseline flight control laws and VSS control laws are computed continuously during flight. Initialization of the state values are necessary to prevent instability, since VSS control laws have integrators and filters in longitudinal, and lateral/directional axes. This paper demonstrates and validates the effectiveness and quality of VSS with F-16 models embedded in T-50 in-flight simulation aircraft.

A Study on the Effects of Followership and Leadership of Flight Attendant on Job Satisfaction and Team Commitment (항공객실승무원의 팔로워십, 리더십 유형이 직무만족 및 팀 몰입에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Chi Min;Yun, Seung Hee
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.46 no.4
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    • pp.939-958
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    • 2018
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to propose useful suggestions by analyzing causal effect relationship between quality of followership, perceived style of leadership, job satisfaction and team commitment in the aviation industry. Methods: For the analysis of this study, a survey was conducted on local flight attendant. A total of 364 surveys were collected and 336 effective samples were used for analysis. And the collected data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling. Results: The results of this study were as follows : First, In the relationship between quality of followership and perceived leadership styles, independent thinking has a positive effect on all six sub-factors of transformational and transactional leadership and active engagement has negative influence on all six sub-factors of transformational and transactional leadership. Inaddition As a result of total and direct and indirect effects, Idealized Influence of perceived leadership style indirectly influences between Quality of Followership and job satisfaction, Idealized Influence, Inspirational Motivation, Intellectual Stimulation, Individualized Consideration, Contingent Reward of perceived leadership style have been shown to have indirect effects on team Commitment Conclusion: Based on the characteristics of followers and the type of leadership, it is necessary to develop ways to develop job satisfaction and team commitment of airline crews. In addition, flight attendant act as leaders and followers of each other depending on their work characteristics. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the relationship between leadership and followership based on the results of this study.

The Moderating Effect of Brand Power on the Effect of Service Quality on Customer Satisfaction and Recommendation in Aviation Industry (서비스 품질이 항공사 만족과 추천에 미치는 영향에 있어 브랜드 파워의 조절적 영향)

  • Park, Seunghae;Hong, Jaewon
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.35-44
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we attempt to investigate the moderating effect of brand power on the effect of in-flight service quality on customer satisfaction and recommendation in the aviation industry. The results were as follows. First, in the case of high brand power FSC(full service carriers), the cost-to-benefit ratio as well as all other flight service properties influence to customer satisfaction. However, in the case of low brand power FSC, the cost-to-benefit ratio showed a greater impact of customer satisfaction compared to other in-flight services. Second, as in the case of customer satisfaction, while the cost-to-benefit ratio more influence to customer recommendation than other in-flight services in low brand power FSC, the cost-to-benefit ratio as well as all other flight service properties influence to customer recommendation together in high brand power FSC. Therefore, low brand power FSC required tit-for-tat strategy against to LCC(low cost carriers) by pursuing disruptive innovation for price. And high brand power FSC required sustaining innovation strategy through improving flight services.