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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 117 - Napa, CA - March 2016
Agenda Location	9 SUBCOMMITTEE A – AERONAUTIC AND SURFACE VEHICLES 9.1 The Man4Gen Project – Managing the Unexpected
Title	The Man4Gen Project – Managing the Unexpected
Presenter	Jan-Philipp Buch
Affiliation	DLR
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Abstract	Jan-Philipp Buch, Dominik Niedermeier, DLR German Aerospace Center, Braunschweig, Germany Despite the substantial and proven safety benefits of automation systems in 3rd and 4th generation aircraft, evidence indicates that when faced with unexpected and challenging situations, pilots sometimes have difficulties in quickly responding to situations which require a rapid transition in their activity from monitors of very reliable systems, to active and authoritative decision-makers exercising manual control of the aircraft. The EU project Man4Gen, Manual Operation of 4th Generation Airliners, has investigated how crews do react to these unexpected and challenging situations where no clear cut solution does exist. Two simulator studies were performed at four different research and training facilities: The first study reproduced a challenging and diffuse scenario within the controlled simulator environment for being able to analyse the crews’ reactions to these events. Based on the analysis of the first simulator study’s results, research activities were focused in three different directions: a) pilot training, b) procedure design and c) cockpit technology design. The outcome of each of these categories was evaluated in a second simulator study with more than 70 participating crews in total. Responsible for the cockpit technology design, DLR invented a prototype of the so-called “Risk Information System”. This system uses a different approach for displaying system failures in challenging situations. It presents the impact and associated risks of failures on a general aircraft level rather than on system level. This new approach has shown to have a positive impact on the crews’ decision making.