STUDY AND DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS FOR SIMULATED BLIND FLYING, PHASE A. REVIEW OF METHODS.
Abstract
Three principal sources of information were used: the literature, commercial aviation organizations, and personnel at various Naval and other aviation activities. Information obtained from these sources revealed, although a large number of variations was found, that the various methods used for simulated instrument flying could be reduced to three basic systems: two-stage system, hood system, and louver system. Two-stage system refers to all methods which employ two antagonistic filter media to accomplish selective visibility. Vision through either medium alone is relatively unaffected but interposition of the second reduces visibility to near zero. Hood system includes any system by which the student's vision outside the aircraft is obstructed by a continuous surface of opaque screening material. Placement of the screening material may vary anywhere from attachment directly to the windshield to a canopy close around the student's head. Louver system refers to those systems which accomplish selective visibility by means of successive slats or cards attached to the windshield which, because of their angles, present a continuous opaque surface to the student but only a series of 'edges', with normal visibility between, to the instructor or check-pilot. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 15, 1948
- Accession Number
- AD0660000
Entities
Organizations
- American Institutes for Research