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Simulator fidelity - the effect of platform motion
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2000-05-10
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Abstract:This research is part of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) initiative towards promoting affordable flight simulators for U.S. commuter airline training. This initiative becomes even more important as the FAA is considering regulatory action that will mandate the use of simulators for all air carrier flight-crew training and qualification. Consequently, sound scientific data on the relationship between certain simulator features such as platform motion and their effect on the transfer of pilot performance and behavior to and from the respective airplane become very important. The present study examined the effect of platform motion (i.e., FAA qualified Level C six-degree-of-freedom synergistic motion) in the presence of a high-quality wide-angle visual system on 1) pilot performance and behavior for evaluation prior to any repeated practice or training, 2) the course of training in the simulator, and 3) the transfer of skills acquired during training in the simulator with or without motion to the simulator with motion as a stand-in for the airplane (quasi-transfer design). Every effort was made to avoid deficiencies in the research design identified in a review of prior studies, by measuring pilot stimulation and response, testing both maneuvers and pilots that are diagnostic of a need of motion, avoiding pilot and instructor bias, and ensuring sufficient statistical power to capture operationally relevant effects. Results of the analyses and their implications are presented in this paper.
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