Motion Relationships in Aircraft Attitude and Guidance Displays: A Flight Experiment.

Abstract

Sixteen nonpilot Naval ROTC students were tested on tasks involving conflicting visual and vestibular cues while flying with each of four basic aircraft attitude presentations (moving horizon, moving airplane, frequency-separated, and kinalog) in a Beechcraft C-45H airplane. Flight-director versions of each display presenting either compensatory or pursuit steering guidance were also compared on a command flight path tracking task involving random heading changes. For all attitude presentations, pursuit tracking was superior to compensatory tracking, and the order of merit of the four attitude presentations in flight casts doubt upon the validity of previous simulator experiments. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0755235

Entities

People

  • Robert C. Williges
  • Stanley N. Roscoe

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airplanes
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Flight
  • Flight Paths
  • Frequency
  • Guidance
  • Simulators

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers