Examining pilot decision making in information-rich cockpits

Pilots are faced with making decisions based on a range of different information sources. One challenge pilots often face is the presentation of conflicting information between sources. This effort examined pilot decision making with conflicting information by conducting structured interviews with 13 pilots, including seven airline, three...

Effects of Verbal vs Graphical Weather Information on a Pilot’s: Decision Making during Preflight

Advancements in technology has made obtaining a graphical/textual preflight weather briefing easier than a traditional verbal briefing. This study compared weather briefings delivered in a verbal format (i.e., written narrative) to those delivered in a graphical format (i,e., radar map plus textual data) in a within-subjects study that altered...

Casestudie naar caisson golfbreker voor LNG terminal in Hazira, India

Delta Marine Consultants BV are carrying out the design of a port and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) receiving terminal at Hazira, Gujarat, North-west India. An essential element of the port is a breakwater, to provide shelter against the waves, currents and sediment transport in the port. The abundance of knowledge and experience in the design of...

Seabed scour by currents near platforms

The gravity platforms in the North Sea, sitting directly on granular seabeds, may be undercut by scour and need scour protection. Conventional methods of protections are developed for structures 1or 2 orders of magnitude smaller and seem unnecessarily conservative when scaled to these larger sizes. The reason is that some of the flow details...