Description and Comparison of Visual Scanning in Beginner and Expert Pilots During a VFR Landing
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https://doi.org/10.18667/cienciaypoderaereo.584Keywords:
Situational Alert, Visual System, Flight Training, Human Factor Measurement, Eye Tracking Device, Areas of Interest, Visual Attention TimeAbstract
The purpose of this article is to publish the experimental results of a research project in which it was performed the characterization and posterior comparison of visual scan patterns in a group of beginner and expert pilots in the flight simulator cabin during the last two minutes of the approximation and landing phases in visual conditions. A group of participants from the aviation School of the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, was selected at random during the third quarter of 2016. Likewise, the experiment counted on a Tobii2 eye tracking device. This was a quantitative, ex post facto study, which examined until which point the independent variables of pilot experience and flight conditions affect dependent variables of interest concerning the metrics obtained by the eye tracking device. With the results obtained, statistical inference analysis of correlational type and of significant differences was performed. A positive correlation was shown between the pilot’s expertise and the number of visits to specific flight instruments and cabin areas, differences between the time used by the two groups when distributing their visual attention inside and outside the aircraft, as well as variations between used in paying attention to primary instruments in optimal and degraded flight conditions. The research contributes to the comprehension of the monitoring process in the phase of approximation and landing in visual conditions from a quantitative perspective. In addition, it provides a series of evidences related to the scanning process of pilots inside and outside the cabin in terms of the expertise and flight conditions, which had not been previously managed by this methodology in a flight simulator.Downloads
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