Developing training for flight simulation is a tricky business. From understanding human performance design, usability and the limitations of training types to considerations with VR, accident investigation and making scenarios realistic, the practitioner has their work cut out developing methods that can test an aviation professional to be ready for any eventuality when in the air. Through chapters written by leading experts, this book aims to address the key questions and concerns when developing training for flight simulation.This book identifies unexplored challenges and weaknesses of ground-based training and flight simulation compared to the real world of in-flight complex aircraft operations, aviation accidents and incidents, airspace and air traffic control, aeronautical communications, air navigation, aircraft automation, and pilot certification and testing. It integrates machine challenges with human factors science and includes a view of the corporate influences on pilot training. Safety is a consideration in all the challenges and current limitations in training and flight simulation and the book is written with the intention of improving both training and safety as the industry deals with more and more complex advanced technology. Underpinned by case studies and real-life examples, this book will give the reader a thorough overview of the limitations of current training methods but with a view to improving and developing better methods for future training scenarios.Flight Simulation Training: Processes, Challenges and Solutions will appeal to practitioners of human factors, pilots, engineers involved in systems design, aviation safety specialists, flight test invigilators and flight accident investigators.
Flight Simulation Training: Processes, Challenges and Solutions will appeal to practitioners of human factors, pilots, engineers involved in systems design, aviation safety specialists, flight test invigilators and flight accident investigators.
Preface
Editors
Contributors
Forward
Chapter 1 Realism in Simulation
Dennis A Vincenzi and Dahai Liu
Chapter 2 Do Pilots Consciously Alter Their Decision-Making Behavior During a
Simulator Check?
Helen Heenen
Chapter 3 The Problem with Motion Drive
Felip Vanbiervliet
Chapter 4 Scenarios, Simulation and Simplicity: Coming Together for Improved
Pilot Training
Mark Cameron, Richard J. Kennedy and Nicklas Dahlstrom
Chapter 5 Training and Simulation: Enhancing Military Readiness
Jonathan Lee
Chapter 6 Challenges in the Future of Aviation
Maria Chapparro Osman, Summer Rebensky and Maureen Manukasa
Chapter 7 Airline Pilot Training with Consumer Technology: Evolution and
Challenges
Robert Dorsett
Chapter 8 Limitations of Data Based Training
Shem Malmquist, Helen Heenan and Robert Dorsett
Chapter 9 The Airline Pilot (a true story)
Andrew Whittall
Chapter 10 Pilot Training: Impact to Aviation Safety
Karlene Petitt
Chapter 11 What is the Point?
Steve Green
Chapter 12 Validity and Reliability of Flight Crew Training and Testing: A
Regulatory View
Greg Fox
Chapter 13 Speaking the Same Safety Language: The Chemical Industry Needs a
Common Taxonomy
Katherine A. Lemos, Anna Pamela Suarez, Michael M. Fitz and Charly Wigstrom
Chapter 14 New Frontiers in Cybernetics for Training and Human-System
Optimization
Ryan McKendrick and Katherine A. Lemos
Chapter 15 Culture and Performance
Suren Ratwatte
Chapter 16 Investigating the Role of Socio-Technical Factors, with an
Emphasis on Training, in Causing Incidents Using the AcciMap Framework: Case
Studies from the Oil and Gas and Healthcare Industries
Maryam Tabibzedeh and Najmedin Meshkati
Chapter 17 Differences Between Simulation for Training and Simulation for
Evaluation/Assessment
Cheryl Camacho, Carrie Miller, E. Miriam Balkin, E. Asher Balkin and Shawn
Pruchnicki
Appendices
List of Authors and Affiliations
Index
Captain Shem Malmquist, MSc, FRAeS, is an instructor and graduate lecturer at the Florida Institute of
Technology teaching aviation safety, accident investigation and system safety. In addition, he is a B-777 Captain flying worldwide and has been involved in training program development as well as flight training. Captain Malmquist has published numerous technical and academic articles stemming from his work on flight safety and accident investigation. His current work involves risk analysis, accident prevention, flight operations work and development of standards for transport airplanes. He has led or been deeply involved in several major aircraft accident investigations, performing operations, human factors, systems, and aircraft performance analysis. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, as well as full member of ISASI, the Resilience Engineering Association, AIAA, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, IEEE, the Flight Safety Foundation and SAE where he is an active member of the Flight Deck and Handling Quality Standards for Transport Aircraft and several other committees involving aircraft certification standards.
Dennis Vincenzi received his Doctoral degree in 1998 from the University of Central Florida in Human Factors Psychology and has over 25 years of experience as a Human Factors scientist and researcher. Dr. Vincenzi held the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Factors and Systems at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University from 1999 to 2004. Since leaving Embry-Riddle, he has worked for the United States Navy as a Senior Human Factors Scientist at the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) in Orlando, FL. Dr. Vincenzi has also been heavily involved in research involving pilot selection, human performance, and ground control station design for a number of Navy, Marine Corps, and Special Operations Command Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). Dr. Vincenzi currently holds the position of Associate Professor in the Master of Science in Human Factors program in the College of Arts and Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Katherine A. Lemos, PhD, RAeS, CFII is the principal of DaVinci Tech Performance LLC. As an expert in accident investigation, human decision-making, and safety management systems, Dr. Lemos is known for her innovative and strategic approaches leveraging advances in analytics and autonomy to prevent accidents and promote new technologies. Throughout her career, Dr. Lemos has focused on improving safety and efficiency at the level of the individual and the organization. She previously served as a senate-confirmed Chairperson and Board Member of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), and prior to this, in industry as a Director of Autonomous Systems for Northrop Grumman Corporations Aerospace Sector. Previous to this, she was a technical leader and program manager for research in aircraft certification and aviation safety at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) as a Senior Human Performance Investigator in Aviation Safety, and as a project manager and statistician for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at Langely Air Force Base through the University of Iowa, University of Maryland, and the National Institute of Aeronautics. She earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Iowa, holds two masters in psychology, and a B.A. in business management.
Shawn Pruchnicki Ph.D., FRAeS, ATP CFII MEI is an assistant professor at The Ohio State University (OSU), in the College of Engineering the owner of Human Factors Investigation and Education (HFIE). Originally trained as a pharmacist/toxicologist, he also worked as a firefighter/paramedic, an airline pilot, and later for NASA prior to arriving at OSU. During his time as an airline pilot, he performed ALPA safety work at both the local and national level (Director of HF) including time as an ALPA accident investigator where he received most of his training at the NTSB Training Academy. He has participated in five air carrier accidents and over 200 incidents in addition to other extensive domestic and international aviation safety work. His consulting company is very active globally with several employees working in various domains helping organizations solve a host of safety related issues including safety culture problems. He has testified to the US Senate on safety culture problems in aerospace manufacturing and the potential resulting dangers.
Most of his research at OSU is related to resilience engineering and how it can be operationalized in safety sensitive domains when confronted with an accident investigation. This research involves how resilience engineering could be utilized to help understand causation and develop a more proactive approach to preventing accidents. Most of his research grants come from the FAA to investigate automation related problems in advanced flight deck designs.
Shawn has an extensive safety concentrated research base and is published in NASA and FAA technical publications in addition to a broad range of scientific literature and scientific technical presentations . He is also highly sought after for media interviews and has almost 300 to date with about half international. Finally, in addition to being in several aviation films, plus functioning as a consultant in an aviation Hollywood film he is also a regular cast member on Mayday - Air Disaster TV series.
