The effects of enhanced hexapod motion on airline pilot recurrent training and evaluation

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• Creators:
  Go, Tiauw H. ; Burki-Cohen, Judith S. ; Chung, William W. ; Schroeder, Jeffrey A. ; Saillant, Ghislain ; Jacobs, Sean ; Longridge, Thomas
• Corporate Creators:
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) ; Science Applications International Corporation ; Ames Research Center ; Northrop Grumman Information Technology (Firm) ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Flight simulators
  • Aircraft pilotage
  • Flight training
  • Motion perception
  • Visual perception
  • Hardware in the loop simulation
  • Human factors
  • Airline pilots
  • Air pilots
  • Hexapod motion
• Publication/ Report Number:
  AIAA-2003-5678
• Resource Type:
  Proceedings
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Abstract:
  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 as they would in a check ; ride. In the second phase, termed Training, the two ; groups flew the maneuvers repetitively and were given ; feedback on their performance. In the third phase, ; termed Quasi-Transfer, both groups flew the tasks ; again, but both in the simulator with motion (quasitransfer ; instead of real transfer to the airplane). This ; was to determine whether or not their previous training ; with or without motion made any difference. ; Statistically significant effects of both motion and the ; phase of experiment were found for all four maneuvers. ; Platform motion was shown to make a difference in ; Evaluation, but was not found to be of benefit in ; Training. Results of this study and the previous ; hexapod motion research should assist the FAA in ; determining future research directions in the effort to ; develop motion requirements for today’s airline ; evaluation and training needs.
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  urn:sha256:b7b696175516d740aa8b714ba5221748d3ddf0bab69e622c0f65dffc2d17f752