Tactical Ground Attack: On the Transfer of Training from Flight Simulator to Operational Red Flag Range Exercise

1982 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 596-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Hughes ◽  
Rebecca Brooks ◽  
Douglas Graham ◽  
Ray Sheen ◽  
Tom Dickens
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Transfer Of Training ◽  
High Density ◽  
Simulator Training ◽  
Flight Simulator ◽  
Data Support ◽  
Red Flag ◽  
High Threat

A-10 pilots who rehearsed surface attack skills under high threat conditions in a flight simulator survived a significantly higher proportion of total RED FLAG missions than did pilots who did not receive the simulator training. These data support the notion that simulator training may have a significant influence upon aircrew survivability in high density ground threat environments.

Tactical ground attack: On the transfer of training from flight simulator to operational red flag range exercise

1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Hughes ◽  
Rebecca Brooks ◽  
Douglas Graham ◽  
Ray Sheen ◽  
Ray Sheen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Of Training ◽  
Flight Simulator ◽  
Red Flag

The Implications of Image Collimation for Flight Simulator Training

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (20) ◽  
pp. 1383-1387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron J. Pierce ◽  
George A. Geri
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cues ◽  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Simulator Training ◽  
Flight Simulator ◽  
Real Image ◽  
Temporal Aspects ◽  
Accurate Perception ◽  
Image Displays ◽  
Real Imagery ◽  
Perceived Velocity

There is some question as to whether non-collimated (i.e., real) imagery viewed at one meter or less provides sufficiently realistic visual cues to support out-the-window flight simulator training. As a first step toward answering this question, we have obtained perceived size and velocity estimates using both simple stimuli in a controlled laboratory setting and full simulator imagery in an apparatus consisting of optically combined collimated and real-image displays. In the size study it was found that real imagery appeared 15-30% smaller than collimated imagery. In the velocity studies, the laboratory data showed that the perceived velocity of real imagery was less than that of collimated imagery. No perceived velocity effects were found with the simulator imagery. Results support the position that for training tasks requiring accurate perception of spatial and temporal aspects of the simulated visual environment, misperceptions of size, but not velocity, need to be considered when real-image displays are used.

A Review of Flight Simulator Transfer of Training Studies

1973 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 510-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horace H. Valverde
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Of Training ◽  
Flight Simulator ◽  
Safety Hazards ◽  
Training Studies ◽  
And Training

Often operational equipment is considered to be the most effective and valid training equipment. However, this is not true in every instance. In fact, sometimes it may be undesirable to use real equipment for training if suitable simulators are available. For example, the use of operational equipment has several disadvantages which include (1) high costs, (2) limitation on practice of varied aspects of tasks, and (3) safety hazards. Practical decisions in the use of training devices depend upon compromises between economic and training objectives. A trainer need not duplicate operational equipment to have training value. Technical reports pertaining to flight simulator transfer of training studies available from the Defense Documentation Center are reviewed.

How Much Should You Pay for That Box?

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 533-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles O. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Of Training ◽  
Physical Simulation ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Flight Training ◽  
Simulator Training ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Training Cost ◽  
Simulator Motion ◽  
And Training

Some claimed cost, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness advantages of aircraft simulators for training are equivocal. Effectiveness of simulator training depends mostly upon the training procedures. Other factors alleged to influence the effectiveness of simulators vary in their demonstrated importance. These are considered in the contexts of physical simulation vs. psychological simulation, simulator fidelity and motivation, and pilot acceptance. One of the more costly areas of engineering development to increase fidelity of physical simulation is motion systems. No experimental evidence is available to show that simulator motion enhances transfer of training. Cost effectiveness has not been demonstrated for many interesting and attractive features that are standard trimmings on flight training simulators. The acquisition of simulators costing several times as much to own and operate as their counterpart airplanes may produce a backlash that will set back the desirable use of cost-effective simulators in reasonable research and training programs.

Modeling Based on Combinatorial Optimization Multi-Target Data Association and Bonic Algorithm

2014 ◽  
Vol 624 ◽  
pp. 505-508
Author(s):  
Xin Fu
Keyword(s):  
Combinatorial Optimization ◽  
Data Association ◽  
Simulator Training ◽  
Flight Simulator ◽  
Multiple Target ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Multiple Targets ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Flight Formation ◽  
Target Data

Group operations is a emerging key problem for flight simulator training course. No matter the radar array in the ground or flight formation in the air, all need to track multiple targets at the same time. That means analyzing the correlation between detecting targets of sensors and known multiple aircraft is essential. So Multiple target data association is the research focus in this paper. Aimed at the research focus, this paper does research for modeling based on combinatorial optimization multi-target data association and bionic algorithm.

The benefits and limitations of ground-based upset-recovery training for general aviation pilots

2012 ◽  
Vol 116 (1184) ◽  
pp. 1015-1039
Author(s):  
R. O. Rogers ◽  
A. Boquet
Keyword(s):  
Flight Test ◽  
General Aviation ◽  
Simulator Training ◽  
Flight Simulator ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Training Requirements ◽  
Student Pilots ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Aviation Pilots

Abstract Research by Rogers et al (2009) and Leland et al established that flight simulator training can improve a pilot’s ability to recover a general aviation aeroplane from an in-flight upset. To reach this conclusion, they administered simulator-based and classroom-based upset-recovery training to two groups of student pilots, then compared their performance in recovering an aerobatic Decathlon aeroplane from a series of four upsets with the performance of a third group of untrained control group pilots subjected to the same upsets. We extend this result by addressing the unanswered question of how much classroom-based training as opposed to simulator-based training contributes to improving a pilot’s upset-recovery manoeuvring skills. After receiving classroom-based upset-recovery training but no simulator training, our participants were subjected to the same series of four upsets in the same Decathlon aeroplane. We then compared the performance of the classroom-trained pilots with the performances of control group pilots and the two groups of simulator-trained pilots. Statistical analysis suggests that classroom-based instruction alone improves a pilot’s ability to recover an aeroplane from an upset. We summarise related research, describe the training experiment and the training program, analyse and interpret flight-test data, and explain what our research implies with respect to establishing career-long commercial pilot upset-recovery training requirements.

Training Transfer of a Formation Flight Trainer

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 470-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary B. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Of Training ◽  
Formation Flying ◽  
Training Transfer ◽  
Formation Flight ◽  
Positive Transfer ◽  
Simulator Training ◽  
Training Cost

The present research was conducted to measure transfer of training from a formation simulator to aircraft formation flying. Evidence in support of positive transfer was obtained by comparing students trained in the formation simulator with students who were essentially untrained and with students trained in the aircraft. This design provided data for a direct comparison of five simulator sorties with two aircraft sorties, in an effort to establish quickly a training cost/transfer comparison. The results indicate that simulator training has at least the effectiveness of two aircraft sorties.

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