The Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (MMAC) in Oklahoma City and the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) Human Factors Research Division hosted a Global Aviation Weather Human Factors Research Summit at the headquarters auditorium on May 23-24, 2018.

The goal of the Summit was to address a wide spectrum of aviation weather human factors research topics and explore avenues for collaborative human factors research partnerships between the FAA, other government and non-government entities, industry and academia in the following areas:

• Weather applications of advanced vision systems (ground based and airborne/flight deck)
• Aviation weather sensors
• Aviation weather training/education
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Aviation weather information presentation and dissemination
• Cloud-based aviation weather computing and research (mobile and web applications)
• Physical and computer simulation of weather phenomena

The Summit was moderated by Dr. Daniela Kratchounova, a research scientist at CAMI’s Flight Deck Research Laboratory. The format of the Summit fostered “think tank” type of discussions that provided great insight to the benefits, as well the challenges involved when it comes to the multifaceted subject of aviation weather research.

More than 40 people attended in person and 15+ attended via GoToMeeting. The lively discourse between weather experts from the FAA, NOAA, NTSB, AOPA, Alaska Airmen, Honeywell, Rockwell Collins, University of Oklahoma, MIT Lincoln Labs, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida Institute of Technology, to name a few, provided for great future collaborative opportunities that promise new and successful partnerships to make aviation safer and smarter.