Technical Writing Project Proposal

• Possible approach: Identify a problem and then look for possible solutions/improvements or look for some initiatives adopted by the companies (limit your research to the companies you base your research on)
• Do some preliminary researchlooking for what the experts or researchers say on the topic
• Based on the research decide what the solution to the problem might be /or what improvements should be added
• Now you can give a proposal where you ask for approval to keep working on the chosen topic
• In your proposal, state right away what is the purpose of your research, what issues your report will discuss, and what results will beachieved.
• make a strong thesis statement/HYPOTHESIS that tells the reader what results you will achieve as a result of your research.
• Specify the benefits-- who can benefit from these research findings

SUBJECT : Deciphering Safety Issues in General Aviation, A systematic Literature-Review

Opening Summary

That safety issues are a top priority in aviation is an open secret. Engineers and other aviation industry stakeholders have overseen the implementation of technological systems for decades to improve safety across every aviation aspect. Understandably, safety concerns in aviation take center stage, given that human lives are always at stake. In the U.S., for example, the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) is the body in charge of regulating, controlling safety standards, and monitoring safety implementation across the entire industry. For this reason, research on safety issues in aviation is broad. Most scholars target significant issues such as pilot shortcomings Schreckengast & Drury (2015), visual-related accidents (bad weather) Jenamani & Kumar (2013), mechanical problems Shahriari & Aydin (2017), and issues arising from safety training (see Ancel et al., 2015). While discussing specific areas of safety concern in aviation is a sound strategy that stretches the research focus, there is a paucity of research reviewing general safety in aviation.

Statement of Purpose

There is compelling evidence that limited research provides a holistic overview of safety concerns in general aviation. This research proposal offers an overview of general aviation safety concerns. According to Boyd (2017), "general aviation includes all civilian aviation apart from operations involving paid passenger transport such as the airlines and charter operations" (p. 1). One of the reasons why the research focuses on general aviation is that fatalities and safety challenges are higher in this area than in airline operations. This research involves a systematic -literature review to offer a comprehensive overview of safety issues in general aviation. The review will include only peer-reviewed articles and credible research journals published in the past twenty years.

Goals

Significance

A systematic literature review provides the highest level of evidence based on the evidence pyramid ranking. This review provides a comprehensive overview of safety concerns in general aviation. The research findings will improve safety training because aviation students can find holistic information on aviation safety in a comprehensive article. The findings will inform researchers of areas that have been over-emphasized and those that have been sidelined in aviation research. Most importantly, the researcher will evaluate the impact of automation in improving safety standards and offer recommendations that could help mitigate accidents and reduce fatalities if accidents occur in general aviation.

Limitations

Background

Problem Statement

In safety research in aviation, numerous scholars single out specific areas of interest and discuss safety concerns within that scope (Boyd, 2017). Although doing so tightens the research scope, the approach fails to treat safety as a holistic issue affected by multiple factors. This is problematic because in narrowing down the scope of safety research, trainers cannot formulate a comprehensive document that discusses all safety concerns and issues in general aviation.

Proposed Solution

Methodology

Databases

Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria

Research Questions

1. What are the accident risk factors in general aviation?
2. What areas of safety in general aviation have been emphasized, and where do research gaps still exist?
3. What are the recommended best practices for improving safety in general aviation?
4. What are the impacts of technology implementation and automation in improving aviation safety?

Hypothesis

Outcome

References

Ancel, E., Shih, A. T., Jones, S. M., Reveley, M. S., Luxhj, J. T., & Evans, J. K. (2015). Predictive safety analytics: inferring aviation accident shaping factors and causation.Journal of Risk Research,18(4), 428-451.

Boyd, D. D. (2017). A review of general aviation safety (1984-2017).Aerospace medicine and human performance,88(7), 657-664.

Jenamani, R. K., & Kumar, A. (2013). Bad weather and aircraft accidents-global vis--vis Indian scenario.Current Science, 316-325.

Li, G., & Baker, S. P. (2007). Crash risk in general aviation.Jama,297(14), 1596-1598.

Schreckengast, S. W., & Drury, D. A. (2015). Regional aviation early career pilot attributes study.International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace,2(1), 4.

Shahriari, M., & Aydin, M. E. (2017, July). Aviation Accident Analysis: A Case Study. InInternational Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics(pp. 77-85). Springer, Cham.

Some parts of the proposal are completed but the parts that needs to completed are :

goals

limitations

proposed solution

methodology

databases

inclusion / exclusion criteria

hypothesis

outcome

should be in the form of proposal