The purpose of this paper is to describe a low-cost simulator testbed for researching human factors related to air carrier flight crews. The FIT testbed was created as part of a human factors research program. The FIT...
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(数字)9781624105890
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(纸本)9781624105890
The purpose of this paper is to describe a low-cost simulator testbed for researching human factors related to air carrier flight crews. The FIT testbed was created as part of a human factors research program. The FIT testbed is designed to provide high cognitive fidelity simulation to pilot participants for the purpose of studying decision making and other aspects of pilot performance. The testbed has the ability to incorporate novel display configurations into the cockpit panels, save predetermined flight traffic, wirelessly connect to tablet devices externally mounted to the flight deck, and manipulate changes in source data for navigation display or tablet devices.
Subscale flight-testing provides a means to validate both dynamic models and mitigation technologies in the high-risk flight conditions associated with aircraft loss of control. The Airborne Subscale Transport Aircraf...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781600869389
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(纸本)9781600869389
Subscale flight-testing provides a means to validate both dynamic models and mitigation technologies in the high-risk flight conditions associated with aircraft loss of control. The Airborne Subscale Transport Aircraft Research (AirSTAR) facility was designed to be a flexible and efficient research facility to address this type of flight-testing. Over the last several years (2009-2011) it has been used to perform 58 research flights with an unmanned, remotely-piloted, dynamically-scaled airplane. This paper will present an overview of the facility and its architecture and summarize the experimental data collected. All flights to date have been conducted within visual range of a safety observer. Current plans for the facility include expanding the test volume to altitudes and distances well beyond visual range. The architecture and instrumentation changes associated with this upgrade will also be presented.
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