HUMAN TRACKING ABILITY FOR MAXIMUM TERRAIN FOLLOWING (PROJECT DIRECT).

Abstract

The present experiment examined two command signals: the aircraft flight vector angle, and the elevator deflection angle. Each of these two command signals were computed for three aircraft speeds, 0.6M, 0.75M, and 0.9M over two terrains, Southern Pennsylvania and Rocky Mountain. A group of twelve subjects was randomly assigned to each command signal for the experiment. Each subject flew each combination of aircraft speed and terrain (6 combinations) on each of three successive days. Three measures of performance were used, namely, integrated tracking error, normalized average clearance and normalized average offset. Conclusions and recommendations are presented. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 31, 1963
Accession Number
AD0431116

Entities

People

  • R. A. Monty
  • W. J. Ruby

Organizations

  • Calspan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Clearances
  • Deflection
  • Flight Speeds
  • Landforms
  • Mountains
  • Pennsylvania
  • Rocky Mountains
  • Terrain
  • Terrain Following

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Geodesy
  • Seismology