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Ing. Ota Hajzler

Ing. Jana Kaliková, Ph.D.; prof. Ing. Petr Moos, CSc.; Bc. Zdeněk Ovečka

The use of IT technologies has greatly helped the increase of commercial air transport safety. These footsteps have been followed by General aviation, but the rise of computation has not been as rapid. A team of specialised people is at work in a commercial airline to look after IT solutions. However, a single pilot is usually the one responsible person for all IT solutions used by themselves. IT technologies have been beneficially used in situations requiring computation of any kind, aircraft performance including. Performance calculations have also been one of the areas where estimation based on one's experience or experience of others has been the practice most commonly used in General aviation. The quality of General aviation IT software varies greatly. The pilot should have a clear way to observe the calculations and be able to check the correctness of those. The software, that is currently available on the General aviation market, often lacks this particular property of computation transparency. This project is targeting the creation of a platform, and later on an application, where computation and data transparency would be lifted among other key requirements. With this added ability, a pilot is able to judge the amount of safety or risk put into the operations of aircraft. Moreover, the general awareness of performance-related factors' effects on an aircraft safety will be increased.

2017 - 2018

Studentská grantová soutěž ČVUT - SGS17/147/OHK2/2T/16

Ing. Ota Hajzler; doc. Ing. Daniel Hanus, CSc.; doc. Ing. Jakub Kraus, Ph.D.; Ing. Lukáš Matějka; Ing. Stanislav Pleninger, Ph.D.; Ing. Martina Skálová; Ing. Karel Svoboda; Bc. Tomáš Volena

The aviation safety always comes first. This statement which is true to a greater extent must be constantly supported by three directions - regulations, training and technology. We can say that these directions are actually a defence against errors that happen while operating aircrafts. Enhancing safety through technology is the most difficult method but from an operational perspective and its contribution it is the best one. This suggested project that is using thermal imaging cameras for increasing the level of safety falls into this category. The main aim of this project is to increase the level of safety during the approach to VFR aerodromes by determining the correct angle of descent and the position of the runway by using thermal imaging cameras. We use the activity of thermal imaging cameras to identify points on the ground (on the aerodrome, around the runway) even in meteorological conditions when it is impossible to carry out approach and landing. By identifying these points on the display it could be possible to easily determine the runway location, we can also determine the aircraft position by calculations and set the aircraft to the correct descent angle (whether the aircraft is above or below the glide slope).

2015 - 2016

Studentská grantová soutěž ČVUT - SGS15/172/OHK2/2T/16

Ing. Tomáš Duša, Ph.D.; Ing. Ondřej Hajda; Ing. Marek Hajný; Ing. Ota Hajzler; doc. Ing. Karel Jeřábek, CSc.; Ing. Matěj Nesvadba; Ing. Stanislav Pleninger, Ph.D.; Ing. Vladimír Plos, Ph.D.; Ing. Viliam Visokai; doc. Ing. Peter Vittek, Ph.D.

The entire aviation is increasingly dependent on good economic decisions when even a small mistake can mean the end of the airline company. From this point of view, small aviation is in even worse situation, while there are not large numbers of passengers, or large volume of cargo into which could be costs split. At present, however, the supervising authorities, together with other relevant governmental agencies and international organizations starting to look up to small aviation. The basis for the promotion and development of general aviation must be an effort to reduce costs for both important aviation stakeholders - aerodrome operators and aircraft operators. Opportunity to meet this support arises thanks to the use of constantly evolving GNSS systems, which can provide cost savings to the system infrastructure approach. In this project we focus on providing additional cost savings by proposing a new type of approach to land for small aerodromes that will use GNSS signal for the approach. This approach must be created by adapting existing types of approach and must ensure two basic conditions. The first one is to have larger area of implementation (at more aerodromes) than any of currently existing types of approach and the other one is to ensure at least the same level of safety.

2014 - 2016

Studentská grantová soutěž ČVUT - SGS14/212/OHK2/3T/16

Ing. Tomáš Duša, Ph.D.; Ing. Ota Hajzler; Ing. Stanislav Pleninger, Ph.D.; Ing. Vladimír Plos, Ph.D.; doc. Ing. Radovan Soušek, Ph.D.; doc. Ing. Peter Vittek, Ph.D.

One important area of aviation, which is not unfortunately adequately secured with rules, is the post of Aerodrome Flight Information Service (AFIS). These services are an integral part of the uncontrolled aerodromes. AFIS ensure safety by providing information services. Although it is an uncontrolled aerodrome, where flies small and private aircrafts, there is, especially in nice weather, heavy traffic. Information service, however, can only be provided for aircraft known to AFIS officer. Here we encounter the problem of unknown traffic, about which is AFIS not informed and cannot further inform surrounding aircrafts, which increases the risk of collision. Introduction of a new system for AFIS can increase operational safety on aerodrome. In this project we focus on all aerodromes with AFIS, for which it will be possible to assess the operational safety, using the developed methodology for assessing the impact of AFIS unit on safety at small aerodromes. Based on the results of the as

2013 - 2013

Studentská grantová soutěž ČVUT - SGS13/090/OHK2/1T/16

Ing. Tomáš Duša, Ph.D.; Ing. Ota Hajzler; doc. Ing. Jakub Kraus, Ph.D.; Ing. Lukáš Krula; Ing. Albert Mikan; doc. Ing. Vladimír Němec, Ph.D., prof. h. c.; Ing. Kateřina Anna Peterková; Ing. Vladimír Plos, Ph.D.; Ing. Jaromír Procházka, Ph.D.

Safety is now considered as the highest priority in aviation. New approach is based on perception of safety as a process that has the same importance as any other process in aviation organization. It helps significantly to achieve operational objectives associated with provision of services by all aviation stakeholders. Implementation of safety management ensures aviation organizations in process of continual improvement. In this project we focus on small international airports which need to implement new operation rules according to requirements of EU as well as current safety conditions. Our research will help airports to meet required safety standards. It will improve safety process procedures linked to that part of aviation, which is currently most vulnerable to emergence of safety incidents. The basis of this part of research is to create methodology of safety management and safety indicators leading to quantitative measurement of safety. In case of security our research aims at

2012 - 2013

Studentská grantová soutěž ČVUT - SGS12/165/OHK2/2T/16