An Assessment of NASA's National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service

The National Research Council of the National Academies was requested by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to perform an independent assessment of NASA's National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service (NAOMS) project, which was a survey administered to pilots from April 2001 through December 2004.



The NRC reviewed various aspects of the NAOMS project, including the survey methodology, and conducted a limited analysis of the publicly available survey data. An Assessment of NASA's National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service presents the resulting analyses and findings.


Table of Contents


Front Matter
Summary
1 Introduction and Overview
2 Measures of Aviation Safety and Sources of Data
3 Sample Surveys: Overview, Examples, and Usefulness in Studying
Aviation Safety
4 Assessment of NAOMS Sampling Design
5 Analysis of NAOMS Questionnaires
6 The Redacted Data and Their Limitations
7 An Assessment of the Utility of NAOMS Data
Appendixes
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of the Committee Members
Appendix B: Individual Presenters to the Committee
Appendix C: Acronyms
Appendix D: Principal Segments of Aviation in the United States
Appendix E: Additional Examples of Surveys by Federal Agencies
Appendix F: List of Additional Survey Questions with Problems
Discussed in Chapter 5
Appendix G: Air Carrier Questionnaire
Appendix H: General Aviation Questionnaire