EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE NATURAL PILOT FLIGHT PROFICIENCY EVALUATION MODEL

Abstract

This experiment investigated two major hypothesis generated by the Natural Pilot Model for Flight Proficiency Evaluation. These specify that human adaptability and economy of effort as understood in the context of servo- mechanism theory are important parameters of flying proficiency, and serve to differentiate proficient (''natural'') from poor (''mechanical'') operators. Adaptability was studied by systematically varying the controlled-element dynamics (control-display relationships); economy of effort, by varying the percent of time during which information was displayed (target intermittency). For all experimental conditions, the proficient trackers retained superiority over the poor ones. For intermittency conditions, performance decrement was the same for proficient and poor trackers. For the condition of changing controldisplay dynamics, one of the three measures of system performance showed less variation and less variation and less decrement for the proficient than for the poor trackers. Conventional tracking practice did not improve performance as measured by the adaptation and economy of effort criteria.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0414666

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  • Bernard L. Ryack
  • Ezra S. Krendel

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Analog Computers
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Base Lines
  • Carrier Landings
  • Engineering
  • Experimental Design
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Machine Systems
  • Information Science
  • Motor Skills
  • Naval Training
  • Psychology
  • Schematic Diagrams
  • Servomechanisms
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training Devices

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  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.