Performance Based Navigation through Psychoeconomic Lens: Part IV - Avoiding the White Elephant Trap

 White elephants or albino elephants were treasures of Asian royalty as can be seen from this 19th century Thai mural. Legend says that they were given as presents to obnoxious persons or persons who did not find favor with the royal regime. The elephants were very costly to maintain and were merely decorative. They now symbolise ventures that incur excessive liability or projects where the costs outweigh the benefits. How can we avoid having white elephants in the ATC units?

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Performance Based Navigation through Psychoeconomic Lens: Part III - weighing the costs

Performance Based Navigation (PBN) relies on waypoints. This means that the Atco will rely less on bearings from navigational aids to effect separation minima and more on specific coordinates. As such, air spaces can be structured to expediently manage air traffic and reduce the delays that result from the process of ATC.  But the implementation of PBN inevitably carries hidden costs. What are these hidden costs? And how can ATC units avoid having potential white elephants? 

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Performance Based Navigation through Psychoeconomic Lens: Part II - the socioeconomic and organizational economic perspective

An overabundance of  visual stimuli can overwhelm the ATCO 

The previous post highlighted the psychological perspective of Performance Based Navigation (PBN): that PBN increases the risk of interference to the ATCO's attention. 

Much of our ATC is done with the superficial layers of memory: sensory memory -  short term memory (STM) - working memory which, is susceptible to interference that decrease attentiveness. What is the basis for the link between attention and our STM/working memory combined? Also what can a mosaic of Van Gogh's painting teach us about the socioeconomic cost of PBN to the controller? And are there any organizational economic implications to PBN? I invite you to read on...

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Performance Based Navigation through Psychoeconomic Lens - Part I: the psychological perspective

I begin this post firstly with an apology for being late; I was trying to make a game and secondly, an invitation to play a game by clicking on Concentration. Take note of the time you take to solve the puzzle. This is just one of several games used in psychology to demonstrate the role of memory. I am still working on a game for Atcos that I will post when I am done.

For the next 3 or 4 posts, I will focus on the psychoeconomic perspective of Performance Based Navigation (PBN). For this first part, I focus on the psychological aspect of PBN. Please read on if you would like to know more... 

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