The effects of alcohol on pilot performance during instrument flight.

Billings, Charles E.; Wick, Robert L.; Gerke, Ralph J.; Chase, Robert C.; Ohio State University

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The effects of alcohol on pilot performance during instrument flight.

1972-01-01
By Billings, Charles E. ; Wick, Robert L. ; Gerke, Ralph J. ; ...

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Billings, Charles E. ; Wick, Robert L. ; Gerke, Ralph J. ; Chase, Robert C.

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Ohio State University
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United States. Office of Aviation Medicine
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Abilities Ability Aeronautics--Safety Measures Aircraft Accidents Aircraft Pilotage Air Pilots Airplanes--Landing Airplanes--Piloting--Human Factors Airplanes--Takeoff Airplanes--Taxiing Airplanes--Wings Airport Runways Airspeed Air Speed Air Transportation Crashes Alcohol--Physiological Effect Alcohol Breath Tests Alcohol Effects Alcoholic Beverages Alertness Approach Aviation Safety Blood Alcohol--Analysis Blood Alcohol Levels Blood Analysis Breath Tests Cessna 172 (Private Planes) Chromatographic Analysis Chromatography Data Collection Drinking Of Alcoholic Beverages Errors Field Experiments Field Tests Flaps (Aircraft) Flaps (Airplanes) Flight Paths Flight Testing Flight Tests Glide Path Systems Human Subject Testing Instrument Flying Instrument Landing Systems Intoxication Judgment (Human Characteristics) Landing Loss Of Control Metabolism Motor Reactions Night Night Flying Private Aircraft Procedures Reaction Time Runways (Aeronautics) Signal Lights Takeoff Taxiing Tracking Systems Wrong-way Driving Wrong Way Driving
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FAA-AM-72-4 ; DOT/FAA/AM-72/4

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Tech Report
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United States
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OAM report.
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Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
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Sixteen instrument-rated pilots, eight of whom were very experienced professional aviators, flew instrument landing system approaches in a Cessna 172 under simulated instrument flight conditions while sober and while under the influence of 40, 80, and 120 mg% of blood ethyl alcohol. Each pilot flew four approaches to minimums on each of two occasions at each alcohol level.

The data collected during these approaches included continuous measurement of aircraft position with respect to localizer and glide path centerlines and airspeed. Note was made of procedural errors committed during the flights. It is concluded that even 40 mg% of blood alcohol exerts decremental effects on performance which are incompatible with flight safety.
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