Validating Visual Cues In Flight Simulator Visual Displays

Moses Aronson

doi:10.1117/12.940458

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17 September 1987 Validating Visual Cues In Flight Simulator Visual Displays

Moses Aronson

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Proceedings Volume 0778, Display System Optics; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.940458
Event: 1987 Technical Symposium Southeast on Optics, Electro-Optics, and Sensors, 1987, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Currently evaluation of visual simulators are performed by either pilot opinion questionnaires or comparison of aircraft terminal performance. The approach here is to compare pilot performance in the flight simulator with a visual display to his performance doing the same visual task in the aircraft as an indication that the visual cues are identical. The A-7 Night Carrier Landing task was selected. Performance measures which had high pilot performance prediction were used to compare two samples of existing pilot performance data to prove that the visual cues evoked the same performance. The performance of four pilots making 491 night landing approaches in an A-7 prototype part task trainer were compared with the performance of 3 pilots performing 27 A-7E carrier landing qualification approaches on the CV-60 aircraft carrier. The results show that the pilots' performances were similar, therefore concluding that the visual cues provided in the simulator were identical to those provided in the real world situation. Differences between the flight simulator's flight characteristics and the aircraft have less of an effect than the pilots individual performances. The measurement parameters used in the comparison can be used for validating the visual display for adequacy for training.

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Moses Aronson "Validating Visual Cues In Flight Simulator Visual Displays", Proc. SPIE 0778, Display System Optics, (17 September 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.940458

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