Modeling of the Human Pilot in Aircraft Landing Control

This paper provides an overview of literature on visual perception for position and motion awareness in general, and focuses on the visual inputs used by human pilots for landing aircraft in particular. General introductions are given on the background of manual aircraft landing and on depth and motion perception. These fields are then brought together in a discussion of visual cues available during aircraft landing. Visual thresholds and visual illusions are discussed and subsequently used to test the likeliness that the cues proposed in literature are actually used by pilots.