1. Practises to identify and prevent adverse aircraft-and-rotorcraft-pilot couplings—A ground simulator perspective.
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Pavel, Marilena D., Jump, Michael, Masarati, Pierangelo, Zaichik, Larisa, Dang-Vu, Binh, Smaili, Hafid, Quaranta, Giuseppe, Stroosma, Olaf, Yilmaz, Deniz, Johnes, Michael, Gennaretti, Massimmo, and Ionita, Achim
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AIR pilots , *ROTORCRAFT , *FLIGHT simulators , *VISUAL culture , *AIRPLANE design - Abstract
The aviation community relies heavily on flight simulators as a fundamental tool for research, pilot training and development of any new aircraft design. The goal of the present paper is to provide a review on how effective ground simulation is as an assessment tool for unmasking adverse Aircraft-and-Rotorcraft Pilot Couplings (APC/RPC). Although it is generally believed that simulators are not reliable in revealing the existence of A/RPC tendencies, the paper demonstrates that a proper selection of high-gain tasks combined with appropriate motion and visual cueing can reveal negative features of a particular aircraft that may lead to A/RPC. The paper discusses new methods for real-time A/RPC detection that can be used as a tool for unmasking adverse A/RPC. Although flight simulators will not achieve the level of reality of in-flight testing, exposing A/RPC tendencies in the simulator may be the only convenient safe place to evaluate the wide range of conditions that could produce hazardous A/RPC events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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