Flying Hours and Aircrew Performance
Abstract
This work addresses the development of quantitative relationships between how much aircrews have flown and how well they perform important aspects of their missions. It is determined that additional flying enhances proficiency in two ways: through the short-run honing of skills and through the long-run development of mastery. Estimates of the strength of the links between flying experience and three measures of performance are developed. The measures are: bombing accuracy, the quality of landings aboard aircraft carriers, and kills in air combat maneuvering exercises. In general, it is found that while both short- run experience are important, career experience has a stronger relationship than recent experience to performance.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA228582
Entities
People
- Colin P. Hammon
- Stanley A. Horowitz
Organizations
- Institute for Defense Analyses