JIL Information Systems proposes to develop an instructional program to provide cognitive and perceptual motor training for recognition of disorientation and for the recovery from out-of-control flight situations. The Centrifuge-Based Flight Environment Trainer (CFET) will be the training platform. Glick and Holyoak (1987) reported that positive training transfer is highly correlated with simulator fidelity. The CFET's 8 meter rotational arm and roll and pitch capabilities provide a degree of fidelity in flight simulation that exceeds off-the-shelf short arm demonstrators. . Lazarus and Deese (1952) found that emotional stress induced before skills have been well-organized negatively impacted learning. The CFET will enable the pilot the benefit of repetitive practice that simulates real world flight conditions, minus the debilitating fear of pushing the flight envelope and losing an aircraft. JIL experts will develop and validate Sensory Physiology Models that are adaptable to the CFET to achieve training objectives. Mental modeling of expert performance for recovery techniques will be incorporated in the training scenarios, resulting in a more effective pilot response and standardization of the curriculum. The completed training package can be marketed to foreign and domestic users of CFET type centrifuges.
