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An experiment to evaluate transfer of upset-recovery training conducted using two different flight simulation devices / Richard Leland [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Airplanes--Piloting--Human factors.
- Airplanes.
- Flight simulators--Research.
- Flight simulators.
- Aviation medicine--United States.
- Aviation medicine.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iii, 14 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine, [2009]
- Summary:
- Air transport training programs provide simulator-based upset-recovery instruction for company pilots. However, no prior research demonstrates that such training transfers to an airplane in flight. We report on an FAA-funded research experiment to evaluate upset-recovery training transfer. Two groups of participants were given simulator-based training in upset-recovery, one in a high-end centrifuge-based device, the other using Microsoft Flight Simulator running on desktop computers. A third control group received no upset-recovery training at all. All three groups were then subjected to serious in-flight upsets in an aerobatic airplane. Pilots from both trained groups significantly outperformed control group pilots in upset-recovery maneuvering. However, performance differences between pilots from the two trained groups were less distinct. Moreover, pilot performance in both trained groups fell well short of the performance exhibited by pilots experienced in all attitude flight. Although we conducted flight testing in a general aviation airplane, our research has important implications for heavy aircraft upset-recovery trainers.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed March 11, 2010).
- "September 2009."
- "DOT/FAA/AM-09/17."
- "OK-09-0434-JAH."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 12-14).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Experiment to evaluate transfer of upset-recovery training conducted using two different flight simulation devices
- OCLC:
- 495783891
- Access Restriction:
- APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE.
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