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Visual scanning strategies in the cockpit are modulated by pilots’ expertise: A flight simulator study Open
During a flight, pilots must rigorously monitor their flight instruments since it is one of the critical activities that contribute to update their situation awareness. The monitoring is cognitively demanding, but is necessary for timely i…
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Potential Augmented Reality Application Areas for Pilot Education: An Exploratory Study Open
The goal of carrying out this work was to identify potential application areas for augmented reality (AR) in pilot education by addressing gender preferences. Like the field of engineering, the aviation industry is dominated by men. Becaus…
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A Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network with Selective-Data Training for Flight Arrival Delay Prediction Open
Flight delay is the most common preoccupation of aviation stakeholders around the world. Airlines, which suffer from a monetary and customer loyalty loss, are the most affected. Various studies have attempted to analyze and solve flight de…
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Flight Simulator Fidelity, Training Transfer, and the Role of Instructors in Optimizing Learning Open
Simulators have been integrated into flight training at various levels for decades, increasing in utility as they increased in fidelity. Today, practically all levels of qualification in passenger-carrying commercial airliners can be obtai…
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Situation Awareness Training for General Aviation Pilots using Eye Tracking Open
Numerous studies in high-risk work settings reveal the great amount of human related causes in accident and incidents occurrences (e.g., Flin, 2008; Helmreich, 2000; Reason, 1990). Moreover, Endsley (1999) points out that about 88% of all …
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A Tutorial and Review on Flight Control Co-Simulation Using Matlab/Simulink and Flight Simulators Open
Flight testing in a realistic three-dimensional virtual environment is increasingly being considered a safe and cost-effective way of evaluating aircraft models and their control systems. The paper starts by reviewing and comparing the mos…
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Optimization of Air Traffic Control Training at the Federal Aviation Administration Academy Open
This paper investigates current and future uses of simulation in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Academy’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) training program to identify potential improvement areas in the areas of simulation technologies…
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Preliminary Results of a Study Investigating Aviation Student’s Intentions to use Virtual Reality for Flight Training Open
Educators have incorporated technology into flight training for decades. These devices have increased in complexity since the Link trainers of the early 20th century, resulting in aviation training devices, full flight simulators, and othe…
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Evaluating the Efficacy of Virtual Reality (VR) Training Devices for Pilot Training Open
Virtual Reality (VR) technology is a quickly advancing field that has many documented benefits, including highly detailed environments, accuracy to the real world, and low cost of entry in the flight simulation market. At the time of this …
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Flight training in a migratory bird drives metabolic gene expression in the flight muscle but not liver, and dietary fat quality influences select genes Open
Training and diet are hypothesized to directly stimulate key molecular pathways that mediate animal performance, and flight training, dietary fats, and dietary antioxidants are likely important in modulating molecular metabolism in migrato…
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Spatial disorientation cue effects on gaze behaviour in pilots and non-pilots Open
Spatial disorientation (SD) poses a serious threat to flight safety. A pilot's gaze behaviour that characterizes his/her visual perception and attention determines success in dealing with this phenomenon. Regardless of a pilot's experience…
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Clearing the air: applied linguistic perspectives on aviation communication Open
As a result of investigations showing that communication problems can be a significant contributing factor to major aviation accidents, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has established a set of Language Proficiency Requ…
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Improving Airline Pilots’ Visual Scanning and Manual Flight Performance through Training on Skilled Eye Gaze Strategies Open
Poor cockpit monitoring has been identified as an important contributor to aviation accidents. Improving pilots’ monitoring strategies could therefore help to enhance flight safety. During two different sessions, we analyzed the flight per…
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Efficacy of Low-Cost PC-Based Aviation Training Devices Open
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore whether a full cost flight training device (FTD) was significantly better for simulator training than a low cost PC-Based Aviation Training Device (PCATD). Background: A quasi-transfer stud…
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Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Simulations for Civilian, Ab Initio Pilot Training Open
Aviation training in the immersive Virtual Reality (VR) world has the power to overcome physical constraints, presenting cues and stimuli that would not be available in flight, nor in a two-dimensional (2D) environment. This gives VR power…
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An Empirical Evaluation of Transfer-of-Training of Two Flight Simulation Games Open
Aim. The objective of this study was to collect evidence of transfer-of-training to professional performance provided by two stand-alone PC-based flight games. Background. These realistic games, Falcon 4.0 (F-16 specific) and Microsoft Fli…
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The Effects of back lit Aircraft Instrument Displays on Pilots Fatigue and Performance Open
One of the latest trends in the global aviation industry is to use "smart" technologies and interfaces as time saving and efficiency tools. Larger flight instrument displays have replaced conventional, analogue, instruments and can be comb…
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The Application of Flexible Areas of Interest to Pilot Mobile Eye Tracking Open
Recent progress in the development of mobile Eye Tracking (ET) systems shows that there is a demand for modern flexible solutions that would allow for dynamic tracking of objects in the video stream. The paper describes a newly developed t…
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Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation of Pilot Cadets’ Flight Performance Based on G1 Method Open
In this paper, to better evaluate the flight performance of pilot cadets, a flight performance evaluation index system was constructed based on the task of the traffic pattern, the flight training manual, and interviews with instructors. T…
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Unmanned Aircraft System Pilot/Operator Qualification Requirements and Training Study Open
With the rapid development of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) technology, UAS has become indispensable in military and civilian field. Growth in number of UAS and activity has required soaring demand for UAS pilot/operator who has become a …
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Objective Measurement of Pilot´s Attention Using Eye Track Technology during IFR Flights Open
The use of Eye Tracking technology to study eye movements has been increased over the last period. For instance, in the fields of academic and scientific research, market research, medical research and human factors. Despite this fact that…
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Application of Virtual Reality Method in Aircraft Maintenance Service—Taking Dornier 228 as an Example Open
Flight safety and airlines operation have been at the center of research since aircraft were first invented, as even slight errors in aircraft maintenance may cause serious accidents. Thus, aircraft maintenance is critical to the aviation …
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Extended reality (xR) flight simulators as an adjunct to traditional flight training methods: a scoping review Open
Over the next 20 years, it is predicted that an additional 760,000 new pilots will be needed to meet the growing demands of the global aviation industry. With current training capability, this may be difficult to achieve. A potential means…
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Flight simulation study of airplane state awareness and prediction technologies Open
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Fatigue In Collegiate Aviation Open
Flight training has received little attention in fatigue research. Only transfers of knowledge gained in commercial and military aviation have been applied to general aviation without bridging the gap to the training environment. The purpo…
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Training aircraft selection for department of flight training in fuzzy environment Open
Modern aviation has gained an important place in the transportation sector since the Montgolfier brothers designed the air balloon. Aircraft are fast becoming a key instrument in passenger and cargo transportation. The last two decades hav…
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A novel intelligent approach for flight delay prediction Open
Flight delay prediction is one of the most significant components of intelligent aviation systems that may spread throughout the whole aviation network and cause multi-billion-dollar losses faced by airlines and airports, it is quickly bec…
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Fatigue Identification and Management in Flight Training: An Investigation of Collegiate Aviation Pilots Open
Pilot fatigue is a significant hazard affecting flight operations; Generally the product of one or more factors: Disrupted or lack of sleep; Inadequate food and or fluid intake; Mental; and Physical fatigue. Previous studies have focused o…
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Deep learning for Flight Maneuver Recognition: A survey Open
Deep learning for Flight Maneuver Recognition involves flight maneuver detection and recognition tasks in different areas, including pilot training, aviation safety, and autonomous air combat. As a key technology for these applications, de…
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How Can an Ab-Initio Pilot Avert a Future Disaster: A Pedagogical Approach to Reduce The Likelihood of Future Failure Open
Safety is the primary concern of the civil aviation industry. This study aimed to explore the importance of learning from failures and improving the future performance of students by teaching this notion during an undergraduate course in t…