Human factors flight trial analysis for 3D SVS: part II

Jens Schiefele; Duncan Howland; John Maris; Christian Pschierer; Patrick Wipplinger; Michael Meuter

doi:10.1117/12.604461

25 May 2005 Human factors flight trial analysis for 3D SVS: part II

Jens Schiefele, Duncan Howland, John Maris, Christian Pschierer, Patrick Wipplinger, Michael Meuter

Proceedings Volume 5802, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 2005; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.604461
Event: Defense and Security, 2005, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

This paper describes flight trials performed in Centennial, CO using a Piper Cheyenne owned and operated by Marinvent. The goal of the flight trial was to evaluate the objective performance of pilots using conventional paper charts or a 3D SVS display. Six pilots flew thirty-six approaches to the Colorado Springs airport to accomplish this goal. As dependent variables, positional accuracy and situational awareness probe (SAP) statistics were measured while analysis was conducted by an ANOVA test. In parallel, all pilots answered subjective Cooper-Harper, NASA TLX, situation awareness rating technique (SART), Display Readability Rating, Display Flyability Rating and debriefing questionnaires. Three different settings (paper chart, electronic navigation chart, 3D SVS display) were evaluated in a totally randomized manner. This paper describes the comparison between the conventional paper chart and the 3D SVS display. The 3D SVS primary flight display provides a depiction of primary flight data as well as a 3D depiction of airports, terrain and obstacles. In addition, a 3D dynamic channel visualizing the selected approach procedure can be displayed. The result shows that pilots flying the 3D SVS display perform no worse than pilots with the conventional paper chart. Flight technical error and workload are lower, situational awareness is equivalent with conventional paper charts.

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Jens Schiefele, Duncan Howland, John Maris, Christian Pschierer, Patrick Wipplinger, and Michael Meuter "Human factors flight trial analysis for 3D SVS: part II", Proc. SPIE 5802, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 2005, (25 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.604461

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