RJA #5c: Reference Articles

Name of Author T.L. Knauff

Title of the article Glider Basics from First Flight to Solo

Title of reference work Gliding

Place of publication

Name of publisher Columbia University Press

Date of publication 1982

Page number

Resource searched Info Please

Keywords used Glider Training

Search strategies used Booleans And

Date of search 2/17/10

Number of hits 120

Relevance of hits 3

RJA #5b: Periodical Articles

Name of Authors Frances Fiorino

Title of article Quality or Quantity

Title of periodical Aviation Week & Space Technology

Volume and issue number Vol. 171 Issue 20

Date 11/30/2009

Pages on which article appears 52-55

Resource searched EBSCO

Keywords used Aviation and Training

Search strategies used Booleans And

Date of search 2/17/2010

Number of hits 2625

Relevance of hits 3

Name of Authors Jeff Wise

Title of article Switching to Glide

Title of periodical Popular Science

Volume and issue number Vol. 263 Issue 5

Date Nov 2003

Pages on which article appears 116

Resource searched EBSCO

Keywords used Gliders and Training

Search strategies used Booleans And

Date of search 2/17/2010

Number of hits 23

Relevance of hits 4

Name of Authors Catherine Cavagnaro

Title of article Glide Testing: a paired samples experiment

Title of periodical STATS: The Magazine for Students of Statistics

Volume and issue number Vol. 46

Date Fall 2006

Pages on which article appears 3-7

Resource searched EBSCO

Keywords used Gliders + Single engine airplanes + training

Search strategies used Math +

Date of search 2/17/2010

Number of hits 74

Relevance of hits 4

RJA #5a: Books

Title Gliding: From Passenger to Pilot

Author Steve Longland

Edition Illustrated

Publisher Crowood Press, 2001

Length 176 pages

Resource searched Google Books

Keywords used Gliding

Search strategies used

Date of search 2/17/2010

Number of hits 30,590

Relevance of hits 2

Title Taking flight: education and training for aviation careers

Authors Janet S. Hansen, Clinton V. Oster, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Education and Training for Civilian Aviation Careers

Edition Illustrated

Publisher National Academies Press, 1997

Length 177 pages

Resource searched Google Books

Keywords used Aviation Training

Search strategies used Math

Date of search 2/17/2010

Number of hits 22,000

Relevance of hits 1

Title Glider Flying Handbook

Authors Federal Aviation Administration

Edition Illustrated

Publisher Skyhorse Publishing Inc., 2007

Length 240

Resource searched Google Books

Keywords used Glider and Flying and Handbook

Search strategies used Booleans

Date of search 2/17/2010

Number of hits 793

Relevance of hits 4

RJA #4c: Research Question Check

• http://ryansmith77.blogspot.com/

• http://kwill12.blogspot.com/

RJA #4b: Search Strings

Search Engine Math

• Flight schools+Colorado+Gliders-Cessna 172
• New York+Plane+Crash+Airbus A320+Chesley Sullenberger
• Gliders+SEAL+training+School

Boolean

• Glider aircraft OR Single Engine aircraft
• Chesley Sullenberger AND gliders
• Glider training AND benefits NOT crashes
• Glider Schools NEAR Denver

RJA #4a: Keywords

• Training
• Flying
• Aviation
• Flight Schools
• Flight Schools in Colorado
• Airforce Academy
• Airforce Academy Training
• Airforce Academy Glider Training
• Types of training
• Single Engine Land
• Gliders
• Schweizer 232
• Cessna 172
• Glider Training
• Single engine training
• Glider Ground School
• Single Engine Ground School
• Aviation Regulations of Glider Training
• Part 61.1 FAR
• Crashes
• Crashes in New York
• Bird Strike incidents in New York
• Bird Strike Incidents in New York 2008
• Chesley Sullenburger

RJA #3c: Research Question

How would birds be controlled in and around the airport vicinity considering that the vicinity's can be very large and near wildlife refuges?

Who can be held responsible in the event of a bird strike?

What techniques are being used currently to control birds in the airport vicinity's?

When will the procedures for bird strikes be implemented?

Where will the birds be relocated so that they are not easily able to interfere with airport operations later on?

Why is there not set procedures in the general aviation community for bird strikes?

Should airports be required to install bird deterrent equipment and what standards will mandate that?

Would passengers be less afraid to fly if the numbers of bird strikes decreases?

RJA #3b: Research Topic Focus

Will the airlines be able to get the funding for aircraft bird deterrent systems?

What will be the requirements for airports to receive funding for keeping control of the birds?

What kind of training will be available for pilots to avoid bird strikes?

Will training for avoiding bird strikes be a mandatory?

What are the odds of being involved in a bird strike and is there a way to lower those odds?

At what point does it become birds lives or human lives?

RJA #3a: Research Topic Exploration

Birdstrike.org

219 people have been killed as a result of bird strikes since 1988. On average bird strikes cause about $600 million dollars in damage in the U.S. annually. Bird Strike Committee USA was formed in 1991 to facilitate the exchange of information, promote the collection and analysis of accurate wildlife strike data, promote the development of new technologies for reducing wildlife hazards, promote professionalism in wildlife management programs on airports through training and advocacy of high standards of conduct for airport biologists and bird patrol personnel, and be a liaison to similar organizations in other countries.

Airplanes.com/blog/airport-bird-strike-prevention-techniques

There is no standard procedure in order to prevent bird strikes from occurring. The basic principal to eliminating bird strikes is to control the bird population around an airport. A bird weighing more than 2 kilograms (4.5 pounds) is considered a high risk to airplanes. Contractors actively deter or remove birds from high risk areas using recorded distress calls, pyrotechnics or even live ammunition. These techniques have different levels of success depending on the environment and the bird species involved.

Birdradar.com

Advanced bird radars have been used by NASA and the U.S. military since 2003 and can be installed at commercial airports today to immediately improve passenger and aircrew safety. Bird radars that have long been used to protect U.S. military pilots and aircrews and the $2 billion space shuttle from bird strikes. The real time information from systems already on the commercial market today can provide improved information and automatic warnings to air traffic controllers. oreign airports in Europe and Asia in the aftermath of the January 2009 US Airways flight 1549 of are aggressively moving ahead to competitively acquire and install bird radars on a fast track and U.S. airports are rapidly being left behind.

Birdstrikecontrol.com

Pulsating lights could be one solution to keep birds away from airplanes as officials investigate new ways to reduce the chances of bird strikes at airports across the nation. In addition to pulsating lights, officials are trying to deter bird-attracting earthworms from crawling onto runways after it rains.

USAtoday.com

Nationwide, airplane collisions with birds or other animals have destroyed 28 aircraft since 2000, according to Federal Aviation Administration data released in April. In January, a US Airways jet ditched in New York's Hudson River after bird strikes knocked out both of its engines. All 155 passengers survived. Airport officials say they try to make the airport as unattractive as possible to animals to keep them away, including building fences, planting grasses that some birds don't like and covering water features with nets. Most of the birds hit are gulls.