Leveraging Cognitive Science and Virtual Reality to Meet Tomorrow's Training Challenges

Abstract

The challenge: Global pilot shortages leaves militaries around the world competing with commercial airlines for talent; Live training is very expensive: Between $2K and $10K per flight hour; High Fidelity Simulators are very expensive > $15M, but can reduce training costs to less than $1000/hour depending on utilization; Limited resources (aircraft, sims, instructors) at training institutions and other variables (maintenance, weather) limit the rate of production. How can we increase the velocity of learning while improving the quality of initial entry pilots training?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 26, 2019
Accession Number
AD1183921

Entities

People

  • Jennifer A. Lewis
  • John Ferrell

Organizations

  • Leidos

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Army Aviation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Science
  • Commercial Aviation
  • Data Science
  • Flight Training
  • Instructors
  • Learning
  • Pilots
  • Reliability
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Systems Engineering
  • Training
  • Virtual Reality

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design