Combining two recent technologies can markedly improve the performance outcomes and cost-effectiveness of aviation training. The first is a well-tested design methodology for developing cognitive tutors (Anderson et al. 1995, Anderson and Schunn 2000) based on modern theories of skill acquisition. The second is the advent of high-fidelity PC-based part-task simulators on which pilots can “learn...

INTRODUCTION This study examined pilots' visual scan patterns during a simulated high-speed, low-level flight and how their scan rates related to flight performance. As helicopters become faster and more agile, pilots are expected to navigate at low altitudes while traveling at high speeds. A pilot's ability to interpret information from a combination of visual sources determines not only missi...

Reviews of the research literature have generally concluded that personality factors contribute little to pilot performance. One possible explanation for the failure to find stronger relationships may be due to the lack of appropriate taxonomies for both personality constructs and for performance constructs. The present research was designed to examine the relationship between personality and c...

We assessed the advantages of a color-coded weapons symbology for a helmet-mounted display over monochrome symbology by measuring military pilots' performance while they flew air-to-air combat in a simulator. The pilots fired missiles significantly sooner without sacrificing probability of kill when using the color-coded symbology, demonstrating a substantial practical benefit of color. Actual ...

A study on capstan partial pressure suits (PPSs) was conducted to determine their effects on pilots' operational performance on a series of ergonomic measures at different pressure levels using objective and subjective approaches. Tests of range of motion, operational performance and operational strength were carried out on ten male subjects wearing PPSs under 6 different pressure conditions. S...

Purpose: Air transport is a highly regulated branch of aviation, but it continues to show occurrences where human error present. Fatigue now recognized as hazard which degrades performance and can put flight safety at risk. In this regard, the general objective study assess impact cognitive fatigue on airline pilots how contribute occurrence accidents incidents.Methodology: Three participated i...

Air combat simulation systems (ACSSs) are developed to train fighter pilots (trainees) in a virtual combat environment. In general, an ACSS consists of the following stages: planning the scenario, training, flight analysis, and performance evaluation. In this paper, the details of the framework, which is developed to analyze and evaluate the performance of the trainees, is introduced. First, th...

This paper deals with the integer frequency offset (IFO) estimation for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based digital video broadcasting-terrestrial (DVB-T) systems. In the conventional scheme, the decision variable is based on the limited number of the correlations and ratios of pilots of the received samples, and thus, the decision variable contains only a small portion of t...