1 SUMMARY Evaluation of the Cockpit Assistant Military Aircraft CAMA in Simulator Trials

Inappropriate automation is considered to be a major reason for deficiencies on interaction between pilot crew and aircraft systems. The lack of situation awareness is pointed out to be a crucial cause of pilot failure. Because of this, cockpit assistant systems are being developed in support of human-centered automation. CAMA assists military crews during transport mis-sions. This paper consists of three main parts, briefly describing the functional prototype of CAMA, the experimental means taken in order to evaluate the integrated system, and the comprehen-sive results of two flight simulator campaigns. Firstly, a general survey is given on human factors related problems in this particular domain. Their influence on the principals of cockpit crew assistance will be shown and a brief circumscription of CAMA’s main functionalties follows. The description of the simulator facilities for experimentation includes the visual system, the available flight controls and the means for interaction between the pilot and CAMA. The ex-perimental scenario and tasks are pointed out. To get an estimation on the pilot’s overall acceptance of the ap-proach and the benefits of the CAMA-system, thorough evaluations were conducted.