United States Department of Transportation
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Flight Simulator Fidelity Considerations for Total Airline Pilot Training and Evaluation.
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2001-04-01
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Abstract:This paper presents the FAA/Volpe Center’s Flight Simulator Fidelity Research Program, which is part of the Federal Aviation Administration's effort to promote the effectiveness, availability and affordability of flight simulators. This initiative will become increasingly critical with the anticipated regulatory changes mandating the use of simulators in airline pilot training and evaluation, dramatically reduced pilot new-hire experience levels and growing operational complexity. Two research areas with high pay-off potential for this effort are radio communications and platform motion simulation. Initial results suggest that for fully effective training and evaluation of the cognitive and workload management skills associated with radio communications, significant improvements in radio communications realism are needed. Initial research on the training effectiveness of a fixed-base simulator with a wide field-of-view visual system compared to a like system having platform motion failed to find an operationally significant effect of motion. Follow-up work will examine whether this result was a function of the motion characteristics or the maneuvers tested. No changes in regulatory requirements can be expected without absolute confidence in the reliability and validity of the results, requiring considerable additional research in both areas.
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