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Accession Number
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ADA566480
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Title
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Distance Discrimination Thresholds During Flight Simulation in a Maritime Environment.
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Publication Date
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Nov 2011
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Media Count
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36p
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Personal Author
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J. Parker
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Abstract
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The Aeronautical Design Standard 33 (ADS-33) prescribes a set of manoeuvres and limits for assessing the handling qualities of military rotorcraft. In developing an ADS-33 maritime addendum, the Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Trial Unit (AMAFTU) and Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) have collaboratively worked towards the definition for a maritime hover manoeuvre. Initial testing to validate this proposed manoeuvre in the DSTO Air Operations Simulation Centre (AOSC) flight simulator has proved problematic. Although pilots could successfully complete a land-based hover within performance limits in the flight simulator, they experienced difficulty in maritime conditions. Pilots were unable to perceive small distance changes in the AOSC simulated maritime environment in some conditions.
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Keywords
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Australia
Discrimination
Flight simulation
Flight simulators
Flight testing
Foreign reports
Helicopters
Hovering
Maneuvers
Military aircraft
Pilots
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Source Agency
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Non Paid ADAS
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NTIS Subject Category
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51A - Aerodynamics
51B - Aeronautics
51C - Aircraft
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Corporate Author
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Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Edinburgh, (Australia). Air Operations Div.
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Document Type
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Technical report
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Title Note
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Technical rept.
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NTIS Issue Number
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1307
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Contract Number
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N/A
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