Distance Discrimination Thresholds During Flight Simulation in a Maritime Environment

Abstract

The Aeronautical Design Standard 33 (ADS-33) prescribes a set of manoeuvres and limits for assessing the handling qualities of military rotorcraft. In developing an ADS-33 maritime addendum, the Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Trial Unit (AMAFTU) and Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) have collaboratively worked towards the definition for a maritime hover manoeuvre. Initial testing to validate this proposed manoeuvre in the DSTO Air Operations Simulation Centre (AOSC) flight simulator has proved problematic. Although pilots could successfully complete a land-based hover within performance limits in the flight simulator, they experienced difficulty in maritime conditions. Pilots were unable to perceive small distance changes in the AOSC simulated maritime environment in some conditions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA566480

Entities

People

  • Jessica Parker

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Maintenance
  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Computational Science
  • Degradation
  • Discrimination
  • Environment
  • Flight Simulations
  • Flight Simulators
  • Maintenance
  • Reflection
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Simulators
  • Standards
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Maritime Security/Maritime Homeland Security