Combining control input with flight path data to evaluate pilot performance in transport aircraft

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1061-1064

  Ebbatson, Matt ^a   Harris, Don ^a   Huddlestone, John ^a   Sears, Rodney ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flying; Pilot; Simulator; Skill; Training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIMULATOR; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55249114858     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2304.2008     Document Type: Article

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