AIRPLANE AUTOMATION AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT EXPERIMENTS. INVOLVES HIGH-FIDELITY FLIGHT SIMULATION EXPERI…

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AIRPLANE AUTOMATION AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT EXPERIMENTS. INVOLVES HIGH-FIDELITY FLIGHT SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS DESIGNED TO ADDRESS FOUR OBJECTIVES: (1) RAISE THE TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL FOR SELECTED NEW TECHNOLOGIES VIA TESTING ACROSS A SPAN OF CONDITIONS AND PLATFORMS; (2) DISCOVER PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO LOSS OF AIRPLANE STATE AWARENESS; (3) ASSESS THE USABILITY AND ACCEPTABILITY OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES; AND (4) ADVANCE TEST INFRASTRUCTURE CAPABILITY FOR SUBSEQUENT TESTS INCLUDING VALIDATING TEST PLATFORM PERFORMANCE. TWO PRIOR AUTOMATION AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT EXPERIMENTS (AIME-1 AND AIME-2) WERE CONDUCTED TO ADDRESS MANY OF THESE RESEARCH GOALS. FOLLOW-ON EXPERIMENTS ARE BEING PLANNED NOW. IN THESE TESTS, COMMERCIAL AIRLINE PILOTS WILL FLY SPECIFIC SCENARIOS AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON THE FLIGHT DECK TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED IN THE SCENARIO. AS PART OF EXPERIMENT PREPARATION, REALISTIC SCENARIOS NEED TO BE DESIGNED THAT WILL EXERCISE TEST CONDITIONS THAT ACHIEVE EXPERIMENT OBJECTIVES. IN ADDITION, FLIGHT DECK DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES (DEVELOPED BY NASA AND ITS PARTNERS) WILL BE EVALUATED FOR THEIR PERFORMANCE AND USABILITY BY PILOTS.