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The Federal Aviation Administration’s Approach for Determining Future Air Traffic Controller Staffing Needs (2014) / Chapter Skim
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Study Committee Biographical Information
Pages 168-174

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From page 168...
... , which was conducted at four NASA research centers and sponsored about 200 research agreements. In that role, she served on the Aeronautics Science and Technology Subcommittee of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and on the executive committees of the Commercial Aviation Safety Team and the Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing program.
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From page 169...
... , Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Flight Physiology Division from 1999 until 2006 before moving to the United States to pursue his research interests in the neurobehavioral consequences of sleep loss as a research associate. He returned to DLR in 2008 to head the Flight Physiology Division for 2 years.
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From page 170...
... terminal radar approach control facilities and towers and as an instructor at the FAA Air Traffic Control Academy. During his last 17 years with FAA, he served at the agency's national headquarters, where his responsibilities included managing the ATC Human Factors (HF)
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From page 171...
... He has served on numerous National Research Council and Transportation Research Board committees, including the Committee for a Review of the En Route Air Traffic Control Complexity and Workload Model and the Committee for a Study on Air Passenger Service and Safety Since Deregulation.
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From page 172...
... Dr. O'Meara served on a congressionally directed National Research Council committee to study the Federal Aviation Administration's methods for estimating air traffic controller staffing requirements.
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... He has chaired and served on numerous National Research Council committees. He was chair of the Committee for the Study of Traffic Safety Lessons from Benchmark Nations, chair of the Committee on the Federal Employers' Liability Act, chair of the Committee on the Effects of Commuting on Pilot Fatigue, and cochair of the Committee on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's National Aviation Operational Monitoring Service Project.
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... He holds a private pilot, single-engine land rating. He served on the Committee for a Review of the En Route Air Traffic Control Complexity and Workload Model.
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