Night Vision Goggles, Human Factors Aspects - A Questionnaire Survey of Helicopter Aircrew

Night vision goggles, human factors aspects--a questionnaire survey of helicopter aircrew.

Night vision goggles have become an essential component of military aviation. They provide superior visual capability over unaided night vision, but there are several inherent limitations associated with human factors and systems limitations. This study used a questionnaire survey of Army helicopter aircrew to investigate the incidence of human factors problems which continued after NVG use, wi...

Civilian use of night vision goggles.

Civil aviation operators have expressed an increased interest in conducting night operations with night vision imaging systems. The development of special operational concepts, hardware requirements, training requirements, and regulatory change and oversight is necessary to control for the known performance constraints associated with these devices. In 2001, the Aerospace Medical Association in...

Endotracheal intubation with and without night vision goggles in a helicopter and emergency room setting – a manikin study

BACKGROUND Securing the airway by endotracheal intubation (ETI) is a key issue in prehospital critical care. Night vision goggles (NVG) are used by personnel operating in low-light environments. We examined the feasibility of an anesthesiologist performed ETI using NVG in a helicopter setting. METHODS Twelve anesthesiologists performed ETI on a manikin in an emergency room (ER) setting and tw...

Detection of Motion-defined form using Night Vision Goggles

Perception of motion-defined form is important in operational tasks such as search and rescue and camouflage breaking. Previously, we used synthetic Aviator Night Vision Imaging System (ANVIS-9) imagery to demonstrate that the capacity to detect motion-defined form was degraded at low levels of illumination (see Macuda et al., 2004; Thomas et al., 2004). To validate our simulated NVG results, t...

Visual Acuity and Stereopsis with Night Vision Goggles