Medical Requirements and Examination Procedures in Relation to the Tasks of Today's Aircrew: Evaluation of the Special Senses for Flying Duties.

Abstract

;Contents: Evaluation of roll axis tracking as an indicator of vestibular/somato sensory function; Assessing an aviator's ability to hear speech in his operational environment; Objective electrophysiological measurements of ear-characteristics, intelligibility of vowels and judgement of the stage of attention; Evaluation of the special senses for flying duties: Perceptual abilities of landing signal officers (LSOs); Air-to-air visual target acquisition; Visual acuity of astigmatic subjects and fitness to Air Force service; Linear acceleration perception threshold determinations with the use of a parallelswing.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA009427

Entities

Organizations

  • AGARD

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Environment
  • Indicators
  • Intelligibility
  • Judgment
  • Measurement
  • Mental Processes
  • Perception
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Speech
  • Target Acquisition
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Visual Acuity
  • Visual Targets

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.