Perceptual-motor coupling betwwen Helicopter and ship during ship deck landing maneuvers

Helicopter ship landings are challenging operations appealing for further researches and innovations to help pilots safely dealing with a variety of environmental, visual and operational contexts. Indeed, landing on ship not only differs from land-based landings in the extent that the landing area is located on the flight deck, which is most of the time oscillating, but also because the visual environment is often impoverished (e.g., rain, fog, night conditions). In order to improve safety at deck-landing, the French Aerospace Lab (ONERA) and the French Defense Agency (DGA) are interested in understanding pilots’ perceptual-motor strategies involved in a such complex task so as to design ecological interfaces assisting pilots’ landing maneuvers