Optimization and verification of single pilot operations model for commercial aircraft based on biclustering method

Abstract

Commercial aircraft crews have experienced a trend from five-person crew to dual-pilot crew. Arised from both technological and market demands, Single Pilot Operations (SPO) is considered an important development direction in modern aviation technology. In this paper, starting from Dual-Pilot Operations (DPO), the piloting process, decision-making process and decision-making mode of DPO for commercial aircraft are studied to obtain the operational requirements of SPO. Then, based on above analysis, the operational mechanism of SPO is studied and the core technology of SPO mode is proposed. Next, a new closed frequent bicluster mining algorithm named FsCluster is proposed for the optimization of the SPO model, and the other efficient bicluster mining algorithm named TsCluster is proposed for the analysis and verification of the SPO model. Finally, a typical flight phase scenario is modelled by Magic System of System, and combined with the proposed algorithms for analysis and verification to determine whether the SPO mode can meet the DPO requirements.