The effect of simulator motion cues on initial training of airline pilots

DOCProceedingsAIAA-2005-6109Human factorsFlight simulatorsAir pilotsMotion perceptionTrainingUnited StatesAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and AstronauticsBurki-Cohen, Judith S.Go, Tiauw H.John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNTL-AVIATION-Aviation Human FactorsNTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Human FactorsVolpe National Transportation Systems Center, Technical Reference CenterTwo earlier studies conducted in the framework of the Federal Aviation Administration/Volpe Flight Simulator Human Factors Program examining the effect of simulator motion on recurrent training and evaluation of airline pilots have found that in the presence of a state-of-the-art visual systems, motion provided by a six-degree-of-freedom platform-motion system only minimally affected evaluation, and did not benefit training, of pilots that were familiar with the airplane. This paper gives preliminary results of a study on the effect of simulator platform motion on initial training of airline pilots that have never flown the simulated airplane