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Student Pilots' Attitudes Toward Fear Concepts in Flight Training
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The Effects of an Induced Negative Mood State on Ground- Based Learning in Student Pilots
… </em>(D.O.T.) (1999) emphasizes that aviation students must maintain a healthy and positive state of mind in order to succeed at learning. Factors such as worry, lack of interest, physical discomfort, and anxiety are all listed as obstacles to a student's ability to learn successfully during …
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SAFTE-VAT Functionality Effects on Flight Instructors' Situation Awareness and Instrument Student Pilots' Performance during FTD Training
… the capacity to focus more on instructing student pilots instead of role-playing ATC duties. While SAFTE-VAT may offer a more realistic ATC interaction experience onboard the FTD that may result in a positive transfer of training increase, the effects on flight instructors’ situation …
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The visual attention battery: Predicting flight performance with visual attention tasks
… differences in attentional abilities between student and instructor pilots. Twenty-four student and thirty-one instructor pilots were administered a battery of attention tasks in an effort to determine whether attentional abilities would covary with the level of piloting experience. The …
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Effect of Intruder Vertical Rate on Pilot Perception of Separation on a Cockpit Traffic Display
… the effect of intruder vertical rate on pilots’ perception of aircraft separation as viewed on a cockpit traffic display. A group of 20 student pilots from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University participated as subjects. SuperCard® software and a Macintosh II® personal computer were …
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A Comparison of Two Geo-Centric Attitude Indicators as Aids to Unusual Attitude Recovery: Pictorial vs. Symbolic Displays
… indicated that among a sample of low-flight time student pilots attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, mean reaction times were significantly faster and error rates significantly lower using an outside-in pictorial display than with either an outside-in symbolic display or an attitude …
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The Effect of an Unconscious Auditory Stimulus on Pilot Performance under Varying Instrument Flying Conditions
… conditions on the aircraft flightdeck. Forty IFR student pilots underwent two eight-minute simulated flights, whereupon they were presented with different IFR weather conditions. During the trial, the experimental group listened to a UAS, whereas the control group listened to white noise (WN). …
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Aviation selection testing: the effect of minimum scores on minorities
… of test scores and performance measures for student pilots from 1988 through 1994, including pilots who were selected by both the 1992 ASTB and the previous version of the selection test. The study simulates the effect of a higher cutoff score on the 'Old Test' portion of the data, then …
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The Sensitivity to Motion Sickness Induced by Aircraft and Flight Training Devices and the Role of Experience During Flight Training
… of this problem, each of 175 Embry-Riddle student pilots early in their training and 43 Embry-Riddle student non-pilots participated in one of four parts of this study. The Motion History Questionnaire was utilized to compare pilot and non-pilot groups on reported motion sickness …
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Comparison of Three Angle of Attack (AOA) Indicators: A Usability Study
… of Cessna 172S, to increase safety and to help student pilots better understand this important concept. This paper presents a review of AOA, visual display design principles, and usability. This experimental study examined three different AOA indicators provided by the flight department. The …
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The Effects of Expertise and Information Location on Change Blindness Detection within an Aviation Domain
… in the displays are being correctly viewed by pilots to ensure a safe flight. However, it is unknown how much change blindness affects pilots or if pilot expertise plays a role in change detection.</p> <p>A change blindness experiment was performed with twenty four participants divided into two …
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Safety in US Air Force Tandem Seat Pilot Training Applying STAMP Processes
… of control authority between the instructor and student pilots. Design recommendations and suggestions are provided for the next generation trainer to address concerns that may have been overlooked in preliminary hazard analysis.
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Student Pilot Situational Awareness: The Effects of Trust in Technology
… the general level of trust in technology in student pilots and then to determine the relationship between pilots' trust and their situational awareness during simulated flight. A literature review revealed that the Jian Trust Scale was based on empirical observations and had precedence in the …
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Comparative Analysis of Conventional Electronic and OZ Concept Displays for Aircraft Energy Management
… design was conducted on 58 participant pilots to assess mean differences on energy management situation awareness response time and response accuracy between a conventional electronic aircraft display, a primary flight display (PFD), and an ecological interface design aircraft display, …
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An Alternative Method of Identification of a Failed Engine in Twin-Engine Propeller Aircraft
… survey was created to gather opinions of airline pilots who operate twin-engine turboprop aircraft. Twenty-nine percent of respondents to the survey agreed with the statement that there could be a better method of identification of a failed engine. Thirty-four percent of respondents who provided …
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Practice as the site of learning: a case study of higher education in an aviation degree
… a variety of ways. This inquiry focused on how student pilots learn through the complex mixture of training, higher education and professional practice in aviation. This is an inquiry into situated learning experienced by student professional pilots taking an aviation degree and considers the …
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The Effect of Task Load, Automation Reliability, and Environment Complexity on UAV Supervisory Control Performance
… ratings were also explored. Eighty-one Navy student pilots completed a 34:15 minute pre-scripted SCOUT scenario, during which they managed three helicopter UAVs. To meet mission goals, they decided how to best allocate the UAVs to locate targets while they maintained communications, updated …