PROCEEDINGS of the HUMAN FACTORS SOCIETY-23rd ANNUAL MEETING-1979 A I R COMBAT MANEWERING PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT

Due t o the complex, dynamic and fast-moving na ture of t he a i r combat t a sk, performance A combined ana ly t i ca l Nearly a l l of assessment during a i r- to-a i r combat provides many unique measurement problems. and empirical t echnica l approach was used t o develop a candidate measurement s t r u c t u r e and algorithm f o r t he measurement of p i l o t performance during one-versus-one a i r combat maneuvering. 28 candidate measures were found t o d iscr imina te between high and low s k i l l e d p i l o t s during f r e e engagements on the Simulator f o r Air-to-Air Combat. algorithm cons is t ing of 13 measures which accounted f o r 51 % of t h e variance i n the performance da ta and which predic ted membership i n high o r low skill groups with 9 % accuracy. Discriminant analyses provided a measuremen