Assessment of Simulated Spatial Disorientation Scenarios in Training U.S. Army Aviators

Abstract

Spatial disorientation (SD) is considered to be present when a pilot fails to perceive the position, motion, or attitude of his/her aircraft with respect to the gravitational vertical or surrounding objects. The results of SD in flight may be disastrous. The limitation of ground based training to raise the aviator's awareness of SD is widely acknowledged. A proposal was therefore raised to develop SD scenarios for presentation in a visual flight simulator. The scenarios were developed using accident summaries from the U.S. Army Safety Center (USASC), Fort Rucker, Alabama, which were reviewed for suitable content. These were then presented as a series of scripts from which a trainer could reproduce the situation in a visual flight simulator. The resulting scenarios were presented to 30 experienced aviators who completed questionnaire evaluations after each scenario and an overall evaluation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA371230

Entities

People

  • Arthur Estrada
  • J. C. Manning
  • M. G. Braithwaite
  • Philip A. Johnson

Organizations

  • United States Army Aeromedical Research Lab

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accidents
  • Aircrafts
  • Army Aviation
  • Attack Helicopters
  • Aviation Accidents
  • Flight Simulators
  • Ground Based
  • Helicopters
  • Military Medicine
  • Questionnaires
  • Risk
  • Simulators
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • United States

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Educational Psychology