A quasi-transfer experiment tested the effect of simulator motion on recurrent evaluation and training of airline pilots. Two groups of twenty B747-400 pilots were randomly assigned to a flight simulator with or without platform motion. In three phases, they flew four maneuvers designed to reveal differences due to motion. In the first phase, termed Evaluation, the two groups flew the maneuvers...

The paper implements an automated test system for evaluating flight simulator fidelity. Flight simulator fidelity is determined by direct comparison to flight test, the detailed design process and arithmetic are given. These problems about how to measure simulator fidelity and about how much fidelity is required to guarantee a certain level of transfer of training is solved. The automated test ...

After serving one year in the army, he transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as a flight engineer specializing in reconnaissance. During his service, he took advantage of the Canadian Legion's offer of correspondence education and almost finished high school. He enjoyed teaching his service mates mathematics, and when he left the service it was with a promise to his counsellors...

INTRODUCTION The psychological workload of flying has been shown to increase heart rate (HR) during flight simulator operation. The association between HR changes and flight performance remains unclear. METHODS There were 15 pilots who performed a combat flight mission in a Weapons Tactics Trainer simulator of an F-18 Hornet. An electrocardiogram (ECG) was recorded, and individual incremental...

The goal of a driving simulator is to produce an environment for a driver similar to the real driving scenario. Motion cueing algorithms are used to produce a realistic motion while respecting the workspace limitations and motion simulator boundaries. Model Predictive Control has become popular recently for motion cueing. However, in this control method, the optimization is based on a predefine...

Robotic systems hold great promise to assist with household, educational, and research tasks, but the difficulties of designing and building such robots often are an inhibitive barrier preventing their development. This paper presents a framework in which simple robots can be easily designed and then rapidly fabricated and tested, paving the way for greater proliferation of robot designs. The P...

The design of flight deck systems and air traffic control operations often focuses on one particular part of the overall system. In doing so, implicit assumptions are often made about pilot behavior. A recent flight simulator study investigated a proposed air traffic procedure called paired approaches. This study has indicated that a number of the assumptions made by previous studies may be inv...