Maintaining training proficiency during long combat deployments has become an important issue in recent years, and therefore the requirement for deployable training devices has also increased in importance. These training systems must not only deliver high fidelity, but must meet stringent requirements for reduced size for transportability and ease of set-up and operation. We describe an experiment examining the effect of reduced field of view on the control of a roll disturbance. Results indicated that, for control of roll angle, there was little change in performance for fields of view greater than 40 degrees. This finding provides evidence that field of view may be reduced in deployable systems without adversely affecting training effectiveness, at least for some essential capabilities.

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