RE-CONFIGURABLE DESIGN FLIGHT SIMULATOR

Re-Configurable Design Flight Simulator

Specifications

            Re-configurable MFD for engine and flight instrumentation system pages

            Touch screen based controls (can be configured for fixed wing, rotorcraft)

            Programmable Feel system for pilot stick

Techniques applied in this facility     

• Simulation based virtual reality

• User Interface design using Visual C++ programming

• Statistical tools and techniques for pilot workload assessment

• Model based design

NASA TLX questionnaire for subjective workload measurement; pilot inceptor workload metric; tracking accuracy metrics such as root mean square error, time to deviate and number of deviations; analysis of Variance (ANOVA); frequency domain measures such as power spectral density and autocorrelation &power frequency metric.