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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 112 - Annapolis, Maryland - October 2013
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.1 Research Institutions, Industry, and University Reports 4.1.3 Research Institutions and Companies 4.1.3.2 Systems Technology, Inc.
Title	Systems Technology, Inc.
Presenter	Dave Klyde
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Abstract	The ARISTOTEL Final Workshop, TU Delft Amsterdam ARISTOTEL (www.aristotel-project.eu) was a three year project funded by the EU that featured 10 university and research institute participants from throughout Europe. The project’s challenge was to contribute to aircraft safety by providing solutions to reduce aircraft and rotorcraft accidents caused by a particularly insidious type of phenomena: aircraft/rotorcraft-pilot-couplings (A/RPCs). The goal of this project was to develop the design tools and techniques needed to predict, detect, and alleviate A/RPC problems for both existing and future aircraft and rotorcraft. A summary of the project’s results were presented in a final workshop on 23 September 2013 at TU Delft in the Netherlands. STI was invited to participate in the final workshop as a keynote speaker to provide a US perspective. Dr. Gareth Padfield, recently retired from the University of Liverpool, also served as a keynote speaker. The Real-Flight Approach to Assess Flight Simulator Force Cueing Fidelity For a full slate of reasons that includes economics and aging fleets, the role of simulation in tactical pilot training continues to expand. For decades researchers have been defining ways to assess simulator fidelity that have produced important results and useful metrics. Yet, true measures of positive transfer of training from simulator to flight remain elusive. To address this need, the Real-Flight process is introduced as a means to provide a full spectrum of quantitative and qualitative measures that can provide a means to assess the transfer of training question. This flight-centered approach uses a suite of task performance, pilot-vehicle system, psychophysiological, and pilot opinion measures that offers an assessment pathway. The Real-Flight method is not intended as a “black box” approach where data goes “in” and an assessment comes “out.” Instead, it provides the tools by which the trainer can make the required evaluation. In the program described herein, five test pilot participants flew a set of evaluation tasks approved by Air Force subject matter experts and then repeated the flight test sortie in a fixed base simulator using two types of force cueing inceptors. This paper presents the results for a pitch axis tracking task. The findings indicate that the selected metrics were sensitive to the similarities and differences between flight and simulation and to variations in simulator fidelity.