The goal of the Spatial Orientation Enhancement System (SOES) research program was to develop, integrate, evaluate, and refine a multi-sensory system that provides spatial orientation cues to pilots to avoid loss of control due to spatial disorientation and loss of situation awareness. The Spatial Orientation Enhancement (SOES) Program combined the existing concept of Synthetic Vision and enhanced the inherent spatial orientation capabilities of that system with tactile and audio cues to convey aircraft attitude. This paper describes part III of a three part study. This part tested General Aviation (GA) maneuvers using a GA pilot population. Part I was a simulation experiment in the Dynamic Environment Simulator (DES), testing military maneuvers using an F-22 flight model. Part II was a flight test of military maneuvers onboard the Harvard Mark IV operated by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). Funding was provided by the NASA Langley Research Center under the Aviation Safety Program (AvSP), the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and Rockwell Collins. Spatial Disorientation (SD) is the number one human factors problem facing aircrew today. SD comes in many forms and includes loss of control in rotorcraft during brownout. The onset of SD is insidious in nature and in many instances not recognized by the pilots who are experiencing SD illusions. A multi-sensory informational approach may offer a means of eradicating the SD problem.


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    Title :

    Multi-Sensory Methods to Aid Pilot Spatial Orientation and Upset Recovery in Real Flight


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    Publication date :

    2006-10-01


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    936236 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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