Objective Evaluation of the Retention of Manual Control Skills Using a Cybernetic Approach

Pilots’ manual flying skills have notably reduced due to the increase in flight deck automation over the last decades. This has resulted in a growing concern that today pilots lack the skills to safely and successfully prevent or recover from unexpected aircraft upset events or to take over controls after a sudden transition to manual flying....

Flight Simulator Benchmarking: A Simulator Comparison Study into the Effects of Motion Filter Order on Pilot Control Behavior

This thesis describes an experiment investigating the effects of motion filter order on human manual control tracking behavior and performance. The experiment was performed on two simulators: the Vertical Motion Simulator at NASA Ames Research Center and the SIMONA Research Simulator at Delft University of Technology. Eighteen pilots in the...