Accession Number:
ADA273972
Title:
Visualizing Spatial Relationships: Training Fighter Pilots in a Virtual Environment Debrief Interface
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. Jan 92-Jan 93,
Corporate Author:
DAYTON UNIV OH RESEARCH INST
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1993-10-01
Pagination or Media Count:
21.0
Abstract:
In flying air intercepts, a fighter pilot must plan most tactical maneuvers well before acquiring visual contact. Success may depend on the ability to create an accurate mental model of dynamic three-dimensional spatial relationships from two-dimensional information displays. This report describes an Air Force training program for visualizing large-scale dynamic spatial relationships. The Virtual Environment Debrief Interface VirDI was developed to study how virtual environment technologies can be applied to an aircrew training problem-specifically, the ability to visualize the geometry of an air intercept while the target is beyond visual range. The trainer employs a low- cost, portable system which accepts data from a F-16 part-task trainer. Within moments of completing a sortie on the simulator, the user may enter and walk through a virtual world containing the ownship, target, and their respective flight trajectories. The training capacity of the system is described along with recommendations for its future expansion. F-16 Training, Situational awareness, Mental model, Three-dimensional, Virtual reality, Post-mission feedback, Virtual environment.
Descriptors:
- *PILOTS
- *AIR FORCE TRAINING
- *VISUAL PERCEPTION
- SIMULATORS
- SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
- AIR FORCE
- ENVIRONMENTS
- MODELS
- TRAINING
- MOMENTS
- COSTS
- EXPANSION
- MANEUVERS
- GEOMETRY
- JET FIGHTERS
- MISSIONS
- FEEDBACK
- SCALE
- FLIGHT
- THREE DIMENSIONAL
- AWARENESS
- TRAJECTORIES
- TARGETS
- FLIGHT CREWS
- LOW COSTS
- AIR
- DYNAMICS
- INTERFACES
- TWO DIMENSIONAL
Subject Categories:
- Humanities and History
- Psychology