INTRODUCTION Spatial disorientation mishaps are greater at night and with greater time on task, and sleep deprivation is known to decrease cognitive and overall flight performance. However, the ability to perceive and to be influenced by physiologically appropriate simulated SD conflicts has not previously been studied in an automated simulator flight profile. METHODS A set of 10 flight profi...

OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. To cite this version : Causse, Mickaël and Dehais, Frédéric and Pastor, Josette Executive functions and pilot characteristics predict flight simulator performance in general aviation pilots. In general aviation, 85% of the crashes seem to be caused by pilo...

This study's objectives were to determine the influence of age and occupational factors on cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence among U.S. Navy pilots diagnosed with CVD during a 12.5-year time period (n = 150) and to identify precursory diseases associated with CVD. Results showed a relationship between CVD and age; pilots, on the average, were more than 3 years younger at the time of CVD on...

The performance of test pilots and college student subjects in acquiring the skill o control the attitude of a simulated space vehicle was compared. The purpose of the comparison was to investigate transfer of training to this type of task as a function of prior pilot experience and determine the degree to which one may generalize from students to pilots. There was also a further breakdown of t...

We report a study that examines performance of pilots flying a simulated UAV in a highfidelity environment while using different types of perfect and imperfect automation aids. Fiftysix student pilots carried out simulated UAV missions containing a 3D view of terrain, a 2D topdown navigational map, system parameter gauges, and a message box. Trajectory and manipulation of a 3D camera was contro...

BACKGROUND Short-haul pilots have largely been neglected in studies of fatigue, sleep loss and circadian disruption created by flight operations, but anecdotal evidence from pilots suggests that with the increasing amount of low-cost air travel, commercial pilots working short-haul operations may be becoming seriously fatigued. AIMS This study attempted to ascertain how much subjective fatigu...

This paper reports on a review of literature covering gender issues in aviation. It considers the impacts aviation culture women pilots. The focus was empirical studies over 25-year period (1996-2020). Two research questions underpin review; firstly, we investigated how pilots’ experiences, secondly, considered its effect as Using hermeneutic methodological framework, found that cultural attitu...