. Can the separation assurance function shift between the pilot [and] controller?

 
To help answer these questions and meet the human factors challenge, the FAA recognized the importance of involving the nation’s leading technical experts early-on in the development of this concept to ensure that human factors are usefully and systematically considered.  To this end, ATR and AAR jointly sponsored the technical workshop on Advancing Free Flight Through Human Factors.  The participants of this workshop were a select set of approximately 70 aviation human factors and operational experts from various government, industry, and academic organizations. (See Appendix A for complete list of attendees.)
 
The workshop was envisioned as the first of a series of initiatives to help guide and manage human factors research and development (R&D) activities in support of free flight.  The primary purpose of this workshop was to identify major human factors challenges associated with free flight and assess their relative importance for research and implementation.   In addition, it was the goal to provide input from the human factors community to the RTCA Task Force 3 effort regarding the human factors issues generated in the initial RTCA select committee report.
 
 
ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT
 
The remainder of the report is organized into the following four sections: a description of the workshop, the findings of the working sessions, conclusions, and recommendations.
 
 
DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP
 
Prior to the workshop, the participants received a read-ahead package of materials pertaining to free flight.  The documents in this package included the Report of the RTCA Board of Directors’ Select Committee on Free Flight, the January-March 1995 edition of The Journal of Air Traffic Control, and a Human Factors Issues in Free Flight white paper by the Mitre Corporation.  The purpose of the read-ahead package was to establish a common understanding of free flight for the workshop participants.
 
The workshop participants received presentations describing free flight concepts, complexities, and challenges from several senior executives from the FAA and NATCA.  In addition, research findings, free flight functions demonstrations, and presentations of various free flight scenarios were provided.   The participants were divided into four technical working groups based on the four operational domains described by the RTCA select committee:  Oceanic and International; Domestic En Route and Cruise Transition; Terminal, Final Approach, and Airport Surface; and Traffic Flow Management.  Each group was co-chaired by both a human factors and an operational representative.  The groups were asked to define the human factors issues in each of three areas:  current initiatives towards free flight, transition to free flight, and mature free flight.  
　
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