Airsickness during Naval Flight Officer Training: Advanced Squadron VT86-RIO.
Abstract
This is the third of a series of research reports dealing with a longitudinal study of airsickness in Naval Flight Officer (NFO) students being trained for a variety of nonaviator flight assignments in fleet squadrons. The study, described in detail in the first report of the series, was designed to investigate the incidence and severity of airsickness experienced by a sample of the NFO population on an individual-student basis as they progress through the basic (primary level), advanced (secondary level), and fleet readiness (commonly referred to as RAG) squadrons comprising the NFO training syllabus. The study also relates the airsickness data collected in the flight environment to the performance of the students on several motion reactivity tests which were presented to a large segment of the study population prior to their beginning flight training. The long-term objective here is to utilize the inflight airsickness data as validation criteria to measure the relative effectiveness of the motion reactivity tests in identifying, on an a priori basis, both those students who are highly susceptible to airsickness and those students who rarely experience the problem. The inflight airsickness data thus serve this test validation function as well as defining the magnitude of the airsickness problem within each training squadron. This report deals with the airsickness reported by NFO students during training in Advanced Squadron VT86-RIO. These students constituted one of four student groups whose airsickness in basic training (Squadron VT10) was previously reported.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 07, 1980
- Accession Number
- ADA092963
Entities
People
- Fred E. Guedry Jr.
- Garry L. Holtzman
- J. Michael Lentz
- Patrick F. O'connell
- W. Carroll Hixson
Organizations
- Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory