Mission Complexity Scoring in Distributed Mission Training

Denning, Todd; Crane, Peter; Bennett, Winston

doi:10.21236/ada418478

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“…A pre-test expert interview (N = 6) was conducted based on recommendations by Denning, Bennett, and Crane (2003), according to whom the definition and operationalization of mission demands should be established with the support of experienced flight instructors. The experts responded as follows to the question of what exactly makes up high demands of a helicopter landing maneuver:…”

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Tracking Visual Scanning Techniques in Training Simulation for Helicopter Landing

Robinski

Stein

2013

JEMR

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Research has shown no consistent findings about how scanning techniques differ between experienced and inexperienced helicopter pilots depending on mission demands. To explore this question, 33 military pilots performed two different landing maneuvers in a flight simulator. The data included scanning data (eye tracking) as well as performance, workload, and a self-assessment of scanning techniques (interviews). Fifty-four percent of scanning-related differences between pilots resulted from the factor combination of expertise and mission demands. A comparison of eye tracking and interview data revealed that pilots were not always clearly aware of their actual scanning techniques. Eye tracking as a feedback tool for pilots offers a new opportunity to substantiate their training as well as research interests within the German Armed Forces.

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Section: Landing Maneuversmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tracking Visual Scanning Techniques in Training Simulation for Helicopter Landing

Robinski

Stein

2013

JEMR

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“…The MECs are broken down to Knowledge, Skill, and Experience. 5 Researchers at AFRL have developed the Performance Effectiveness Tracking System (PETS). Example measures collected using PETS include: Clear Avenue of Fire, Controls Intercept Geometry, and Percent Max Range.…”

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A Flight Centered Approach to Assess Dynamic Flight Simulator Force Cueing Fidelity

Klyde

Howe

Allen

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49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

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With an aging aircraft fleet and an ongoing period of combat, the USAF must look more to ground based simulation to supplement flight training. Objective measures are needed, however, to insure that a training environment with limitations in force cueing adequately transfers back to flight. The objective of a continuing program conducted by Systems Technology, Inc. for the Air Force Research Laboratory is to leverage the significant past research with a flight-centered approach to produce effective qualitative and quantitative measures of simulator force cueing fidelity as it relates to tactical aircraft flight training. The selected measures are being incorporated into a software toolbox known as Real-Flight that will be used to compare simulator with related flight data. To exhibit feasibility of the approach, a demonstration version of the toolbox was created that featured an exemplar set of task performance, pilot-vehicle system, psychophysiological, and qualitative (i.e., pilot ratings and comments) metrics. A limited piloted simulation was conducted using a fixedbase simulator with variations in pilot control inceptors and visual displays. Because the participating pilots did not fly the selected tasks in flight, existing flight test data were used to make direct comparisons between simulation and flight. This was done more as an exercise to show how the process works, rather than to draw specific conclusions. Furthermore, no psychophysiological measures were available in the existing flight test data. Thus, a face/eyes tracking system was used to show how such a system could be integrated with a flight simulator and how relevant measures could be collected and synched with the simulator transient data. These processes were successfully demonstrated leading to a prototype development program that is now underway.

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