A Training Study To Improve Monitoring During a Go-Around

Authors

Randall J. Mumaw, San José State University
Amber Villa, NASA Ames Research Center
Dorrit Billman, NASA Ames Research Center
Lucas Cusano, NASA Ames Research Center

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

Abstract

The go-around (GA) maneuver varies greatly in line operations from how it istypically trained. To support improved maneuver performance, we developed atraining module based on a description of skilled monitoring performance. Wehad U.S. airline pilots fly GAs (in a simulator) in the Pilot Monitoring (PM) roleboth before and after training. The Pilot Flying (PF), a confederate, flew someGAs poorly to see whether the PM could detect and correct the poorly flownmaneuvers. Our data showed that training that focuses on developing clearexpectations about system performance can lead to significant improvements inmonitoring performance. The PMs trained in the experimental conditionoutperformed the control group on several important operational measures whileflying realistic GA scenarios.

Comments

Presented at the 23rd International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, May 27-30, 2025, Hosted by Oregon State University

Repository Citation

Mumaw, R. J., Villa, A., Billman, D., & Cusano, L. (2025). A Training Study To Improve Monitoring During a Go-Around. Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, 114-119.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/isap_2025/20