S. Rice, S. Winter, Keegan Kraemer, Rian Mehta, Korhan Oyman
{"title":"Implementing Jet Aircraft Training in a University Setting: Instructor Perceptions and Lessons Learned","authors":"S. Rice, S. Winter, Keegan Kraemer, Rian Mehta, Korhan Oyman","doi":"10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100444","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the findings of a phenomenological study of instructor pilot first-hand experiences when conducting training for collegiate flight students in a jet aircraft. While jet training has been conducted in simulators in the past, this was one of the first instances of training in an actual aircraft. A total of 22 students completed training in a very light jet aircraft during the spring semester of their junior year at the subject university. A group of four instructors conducted both simulator and flight training with the students. Surveys were used to collect data from instructors longitudinally throughout the length of the 16-week semester. At the conclusion of the training period, participants completed a structured interview. The results of those interviews suggested that students excelled in areas such as avionics programming, use of standardized operating procedures, and checklist usage. Students were challenged by the increased operating speeds of the jet aircraft, descent planning, and lesson preparedness. The instructors offered suggestions to enhance the course and provided a summary of the lessons learned.","PeriodicalId":39089,"journal":{"name":"Collegiate Aviation Review","volume":"44 1 1","pages":"140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73498908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership Effectiveness of Collegiate Aviation Program Leaders: A Four-frame Analysis","authors":"Ryan Phillips, M. Baron","doi":"10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100442","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to examine the perceived leadership effectiveness of aviation program leaders at higher education institutions utilizing the four leadership frames of Drs. Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal. A frame is a tactic which allows an individual to gain a perspective on a given situation. The four frames of Bolman and Deal are the structural, human resources, political, and symbolic frames. An anonymous online survey, developed using the Leadership Orientation Instrument of Bolman and Deal, was sent electronically to aviation faculty and staff followers at University Aviation Association higher education institutions. Five-point Likert scales were used by aviation faculty and staff to assess the perceived leadership effectiveness of aviation program leaders. A one-way ANOVA was conducted comparing the perceived leadership effectiveness scores based on the four leadership frames. No significant difference was found in perceived leadership effectiveness based on the primary leadership frame, F(3,90) = 1.08, p > .05. An additional one-way ANOVA was run comparing the perceived leadership effectiveness scores of the four frame groups (no frames, single frame, paired frames, and multiple frames). A significant difference was found in perceived leadership effectiveness based on the number of frames utilized, F(3,222) = 101.93, p < .05. Post-hoc tests revealed that aviation program leaders scored higher in perceived leadership effectiveness if they subscribed to the paired frames or multiple frames approaches.","PeriodicalId":39089,"journal":{"name":"Collegiate Aviation Review","volume":"225 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78285869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mary E. Johnson, Alan Gonzalez, Brian Kozak, Lauren A. Sperlak
{"title":"Carbon Estimation and Offsets for U.S. University Aviation Programs","authors":"Mary E. Johnson, Alan Gonzalez, Brian Kozak, Lauren A. Sperlak","doi":"10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100437","url":null,"abstract":"Aviation activities produce carbon. The International Civil Aviation Organization has included a carbon calculator on its website as a way to estimate a passenger’s carbon footprint. United Airlines, Delta Airlines and British Airways are three airlines that offer customers ways to offset the carbon emissions generated by their air travel. University flight programs also generate carbon emissions. While not required in the United States at this time, forward-thinking companies and universities are looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint by reducing or offsetting emissions created by combustion of fuels. This paper discusses aviation fuel emissions, examines the carbon footprint of a university flight program, identifies ways to offset the carbon, and explores the use of trees to offset the carbon generated by flight operations. In addition, this paper presents a methodology for estimating the carbon footprint for the fuel used in a university flight training program and for estimating the number of trees to offset aviation emissions.","PeriodicalId":39089,"journal":{"name":"Collegiate Aviation Review","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85223395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bioavailable Lead in Topsoil Collected from General Aviation Airports","authors":"J. Kavouras, Randal J. DeMik, A. C. Hopkins","doi":"10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100438","url":null,"abstract":"Representatives of the aviation community are interested in determining the environmental effects of leaded fuel emissions from general aviation flight operations. Soil is an environmental sink for lead to accumulate over time. This study measured bioavailable lead concentrations in topsoil at three general aviation airports and at one site with no general aviation operations in order to determine if general aviation aircraft operations are contributing to the contamination of airport topsoil at levels that require remediation by law. Bioavailable refers to substances that organisms can absorb, because they have access to them. Topsoil was collected from refueling areas, run-up areas, and approach corridor/departure end runways. The samples were dried and the fine fractions were separated. The fine fractions were suspended in nitric acid to extract the lead for laboratory analysis. A univariate ANOVA was computed comparing the quantity of soluble lead in the topsoil from three general aviation airports (further classified as high, moderate, and low volume of flight operations) and at one site with no general aviation operations (arboretum). A significant main effect for the high volume airport was found (F[2, 24] = 10.966, p .05). However, an interaction was observed when comparisons were made between the airport sites (n = 3) and locations sampled at the sites (n = 3) that was significant (F[4, 24] = 2.902, p < .05). Tukey’s HSD was used to determine the nature of the differences. The analysis revealed that concentrations of lead in soil samples collected from the high volume airport refueling area, run-up area, and approach corridor/departure end runway were significantly lower than the moderate volume airport run-up area lead concentrations. The results at the three airports investigated support the conclusions that the risk of ingesting lead from surface soils is low and bioavailable lead in the soil sampled from general aviation airports is not accumulating in quantities that require remediation according to Environmental Protection Agency requirements.","PeriodicalId":39089,"journal":{"name":"Collegiate Aviation Review","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74010775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning Styles of Australian Aviation Students: An Assessment of the Impact of Culture","authors":"Yi Gao, K. T. S. Au, H. Kwon, E. Leong","doi":"10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100435","url":null,"abstract":"Australia has a rich history in aviation and has the tradition of being a pilot training provider for many decades. Students from all over the world are being attracted to Australia every year with the ambition of becoming a commercial pilot. An understanding of the impact of national cultures on the learning styles of student pilots from different culture backgrounds will be beneficial to the overall quality of pilot education in Australia. In this study, students enrolled in the aviation (pilot) program of Swinburne University of Technology were surveyed using Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory, and subsequent analysis was performed to the survey data. It was found that a predominant percentage of aviation students were adopting converging and assimilating styles. When comparing findings of this project with previous studies using samples from China and the United States, Australian students’ preference of abstract conceptualization was found to be quite similar to that of American students and different from Chinese students, which is an indication of the impact of national culture on learning style preference. This newfound knowledge of Australian aviation students will help raise the understanding how aviation students of different cultural backgrounds learn piloting skills and provide insightful information for flight training academies and researchers.","PeriodicalId":39089,"journal":{"name":"Collegiate Aviation Review","volume":"4 1","pages":"17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82255152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Twenty-Eight Years of the Collegiate Aviation Review: An Exploratory Study of Academic Research in Aviation Education","authors":"T. Bliss","doi":"10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100426","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports on a review of academic journal articles published in the Collegiate Aviation Review (CAR), with the goal of evaluating academic research in aviation education. The study included all 189 articles published in the CAR over the past 28 years (1983-2010). The author identified and categorized aviation faculty and industry professionals who have led the aviation profession, academically, and what important issues and challenges they have identified in their scholarly writings over the past 28 years. Each article was categorized by author’s institution/organization affiliation, classification by subject category, and geographical grouping of contributing authors and institutions/organizations. The author found that the journal covers a broad range of authors and subject matter. The top five subject areas covered were: collegiate flight training curriculum and instructional methods, collegiate aviation degree programs, the collegiate aviation student, the airport system, and the commercial airline industry. The author concludes with a discussion of the implications of this study for the role of aviation faculty and industry professionals engaged in aviation education research. The author stresses that this research will help the University Aviation Association (UAA) meet the needs of the continuously changing aviation/aerospace industry.","PeriodicalId":39089,"journal":{"name":"Collegiate Aviation Review","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73111545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"That Used To Be Us: Through the Eyes of the Aviation Industry","authors":"K. George","doi":"10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100429","url":null,"abstract":"The U.S. economic success was rooted in an industrial policy which had five pillars of a prosperity formula that served as a catalyst for development and growth: 1) public/private cooperation on education, 2) immigration policy, 3) infrastructure, 4) risk/capital management, and 5) government-funded scientific research. In this paper, the development and growth of the aviation industry is viewed in the framework of such a prosperity formula in order to face the four areas that the entire economy will need to face in the current market in order to be competitive in the global market in the 21st century. Since the aerospace and aviation industry is an integral part of the US economy, it stands that those elements will also challenge the aviation industry’s future. Considering the economic history of the industry and the prosperity formula, the industry has opportunities for not only normal growth but potentially can be used as a catalyst for industry health, significance and renewal in the future as well as the indirect aviation-related industries. It is clear that further research and thought are needed to provide pathways to meet the four economic challenges in the aviation sector identified in this paper. It is hoped that this paper will serve as a foundation for that research.","PeriodicalId":39089,"journal":{"name":"Collegiate Aviation Review","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79522935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disparities in Weather Education across Professional Flight Baccalaureate Degree Programs","authors":"Thomas A. Guinn, K. Rader","doi":"10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100432","url":null,"abstract":"The required meteorology coursework for 22 accredited professional flight baccalaureate degree programs was examined and compared. Significant differences were noted in both the number of required meteorology courses as well as the number of required meteorology credit hours. While all programs required at least one three-credit meteorology course, not all programs required an aviation-specific meteorology course. In addition to the required number of meteorology courses and credit hours, topics within the aviation-specific meteorology courses were also examined. The study showed the topics of “flight hazards” and “aviation weather reports and charts” were identified most frequently in course descriptions, followed third by “weather applications to flight.” However, based on the course descriptions alone, it was unclear if the meteorological theory of flight hazards was addressed in the courses or if the courses only addressed the interpretation of weather hazards charts. To improve and standardize aviation-meteorology education in professional flight-degree programs, a recommendation was made to either provide aviation-meteorology curriculum guidelines through the University Aviation Association (UAA) Curriculum Committee or to form a separate UAA Aviation-Meteorology Education Committee.","PeriodicalId":39089,"journal":{"name":"Collegiate Aviation Review","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82889646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promotion and Tenure Perceptions of University Aviation Association (UAA) Collegiate Aviation Administrators and Faculty: Administration Perceptions versus Faculty Perceptions","authors":"Samuel R. Pavel, Bryan T. Harrison","doi":"10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100441","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports on a study undertaken to compare the perceptions of faculty members and administrators of the value placed on promotion and tenure. The authors discuss factors including the value of publishing in various aviation publications, sole versus multi-authorship, the geographic venue for presenting scholarly research, and service. They used a database created from a survey administered by Dr. Ruiz of Southern Illinois University (see Pavel, Legier, and Ruiz, 2012). The database contains responses to 20 multiple-choice questions (with additional comments) of 19 department chairs, 10 full professors, 29 associate professors, and 24 assistant professors from four-year collegiate UAA member institutions. Department chairs were considered to be administrators because they have more supervisory duties than faculty and may have a smaller teaching load. The responses were divided by employment classification and institution type (research versus non-research). The authors of the current study found that there was generally little difference between administration and faculty perceptions to the survey questions at similar institution types. Survey responses differed more when comparing research to non-research institutions, specifically responses on the value of scholarship in the promotion and tenure process. However, teaching and service perceptions were generally similar for all groups of respondents; most respondents (87%) considered teaching to be vital.","PeriodicalId":39089,"journal":{"name":"Collegiate Aviation Review","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86012012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Experiences of Pilots within Canadian General Aviation Flight Operations","authors":"S. Kearns, J. Sutton","doi":"10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22488/OKSTATE.18.100427","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports on a study of Canadian pilots that focused on the threats, errors, and nontechnical skills of pilots within Canadian general aviation (GA) operations. The measurement of nontechnical skills is compared to the standard measurement of flight hours as a measure of pilot expertise. The authors note that nontechnical skills may develop at different rates depending upon exposure to different threats and errors within specific types of flight operations. The study included 130 narratives describing real-world scenarios, gathered from pilots with an online self-report Hangar Talk Survey (HTS). Within the narratives, three pilot reviewers identified threats, errors, and nontechnical skills. The authors found that several threats, errors, and nontechnical skills were significantly associated with specific types of operations. Analyses revealed that the threats of operational pressure, airport condition, and student pilot error were significantly associated with the type of operation. They conclude that the rate of nontechnical skill development may be linked to the type of operation a pilot is involved in, rather than to the number of flight hours alone.","PeriodicalId":39089,"journal":{"name":"Collegiate Aviation Review","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90240456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}