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Flight Simulation for Research*

Part II. The Flight Simulator in Display Research — J. M. Naish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

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Summary

Part II deals with the development, from a simple flight simulator used in tachistoscopic studies of attitude displays, to more advanced equipment used to study an instrument system for high-speed low-level flight. This involved the concept of information flow in parallel and visually-mediated control loops, for visual and instrument flight, requiring developments in the simulation of visual flight, by a tele-visual method, and in the assessment of tracking performance, by a method of mean modulus errors; these developments allowing observation of performance of concurrent visual tasks. Flight trials confirmed simulator studies of learning effects, information capacity and instrument to visual transition. The complete scheme of simulation included ground control and autopilot facilities.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 68 , Issue 646 , October 1964 , pp. 653 - 662
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1964

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Footnotes

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Based on the 1400th lecture given before the Society— March 1964

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