Aircraft Simulator Motion and the Order of Merit of Flight Attitude and Steering Guidance Displays,

Abstract

Twenty-four nonpilot, volunteer subjects were tested on three flight tasks while flying four basic aircraft attitude presentations (moving horizon, moving airplane, frequency-separated, and kinalog) in a light twin-engine aircraft simulator providing three levels of motion cues (no motion, standard GAT-2 motion, and washout motion). The flight tasks involved conflicting visual and vestibular cues and included disturbed attitude tracking, command flight path tracking in both pursuit and compensatory modes, and a series of recovery trials from discrete unknown attitudes. To provide a basis for comparison, the present simulator study closely replicated the procedures used in the Roscoe and Williges (1973) flight experiment. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0784886

Entities

People

  • Fuat Ince
  • Robert C. Williges
  • Stanley N. Roscoe

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aircrafts
  • Airplanes
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Flight
  • Flight Paths
  • Flight Simulators
  • Frequency
  • Guidance
  • Military Research
  • Recovery
  • Simulators
  • Standards
  • Steering
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers