Thirty-six pilots (31 men, 5 women) were tested in a flight simulator on their ability to intercept a pathway depicted on a highway-in-the-sky (HITS) display. While intercepting and flying the pathway, pilots were required to watch for traffic outside the cockpit. Additionally, pilots were tested on their awareness of speed, altitude, and heading during the flight. Results indicated that the pr...

As the demand for simulated flight training and interest in new technology increase, this study analyzed performance of simulator actual subjects to confirm efficient curriculum. Summarizing results study, found that had a significant positive effect on particular relatively large air maneuver, traffic pattern, cross country subjects. result analyzing theoretical major classes affect verify cor...

Flight simulator is among the most sophisticated software systems in existence. It is highly distributed, has rigorous timing requirements, and must be amenable to frequent updates to maintain high fidelity with the everchanging vehicle and environment it is simulating. Current flight simulation framework and software developing pattern are complicated to use and time consuming. We have accompl...

This paper presents an enhancement to current image-based rendering methods. It suggests that motion consistency can be used in a realtime dynamic rendering system to increase computational efficiency up to one order of magnitude. Parameterization of the image warping function with respect to the viewer’s motion can be used to provide an efficient method for extrapolating new viewpoints using a...

We propose an approach to detecting anomalies from aircraft cruise flight data. The detection is based on a model learned from the historical data of a fleet of aircraft. For a variety of cruise flight conditions with and without turbulence, we validate the approach using a FOQA dataset generated by a NASA flight simulator. We identify a regression model that maps the flight conditions and airc...

This paper reports the results of a side-by-side evaluation of nine candidate metrics for quantifying edge blend quality in multi channel display systems. The metrics tested include eight variations of contemporary luminance difference and slope-based metrics and a new approach based on a just-noticeabledifference area (JNDA) analysis. The performance of each candidate metric was evaluated by a...

This paper describes extensions to the Tioga flight-simulator browsing protocol presented by Stonebraker et al. (1993a). These extensions allow users to navigate a multidimensional data space using sophisticated zooming capabilities. This design also allows users to move easily between different multidimensional spaces. Tunneling between different data spaces is shown to be a substantial genera...

Document genres help readers orient themselves when they approach a new document. Once they know a document’s genre, they understand what the document is likely to contain and how they probably can navigate the document. User interfaces also fall into genres that allow users to orient themselves. For instance, Xerox introduced the powerful desktop genre, which facilitated user insight when they...

Our society relies more and more on flight simulation for pilot training to enhance safety and reduce costs. But to meet the highest level of general technical requirements for simulators set forth by the FAA and EASA requires high-cost equipment. To make simulator use more accessible, reduced costs might be achieved with novel simulator designs and/or through research to improve the performanc...

Flight simulation has always been an application which needed to be distributed in order to be computable at all. Although examples of single-processor flight simulators exist [2] they are typically simulators of low fidelity, often games. True flight simulation has extremely high fidelity demands: the virtual environment which the simulator creates must be as life-like as possible in order to ...