Development and evaluation of an aid to facilitate agenda management

Commercial air transportation has an admirable safety record, yet each year hundreds of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property are lost in air crashes in the United States alone. About two-thirds of these aircraft accidents are caused, in part, by pilot error. Many of these errors are errors in performing flight deck (or cockpit) functions, others are errors in managing flight deck goals and the functions to achieve those goals. The paper describes the development and evaluation of a prototype computational aid to facilitate the management of flight deck goals and functions