Peripheral Airspeed Indication for Manual Approach

Authors

J. Caron, Delft University of Technology
M. M. van Paassen, Delft University of Technology
Annemarie Landman, Delft University of Technology
Olaf Stroosma, Delft University of Technology
Max Mulder, Delft University of Technology

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

Abstract

Maintaining properspeedcontroliscriticalinvisualapproachprocedures.Currently,pilotsneedtoto switchbetweentheoutsidevisualsceneandtheaircraftinstruments.Inthisprojectweinvestigatethepossibilitytousealowcostdisplayintheperipheralviewtoindicatedeviationfromthe aircraft’sapproachspeed.Anoff-theshelflightbarisinstalledinafullmotionflightsimulator(SIMONAResearchSimulator,TUDelft),andconfiguredtoshowspeeddeviation.Inanexperiment,approachpathandspeedperformanceareevaluatedduringapproachesinahighandlowturbulencecondition.Aconditionwithconventionalinstrumentationwillbecomparedtoconditions withthenewspeeddeviationindicatorwithtwodifferentscalingfactorsforthespeedindication. Aneyetracker(PupillabsCore)isusedtoquantifydifferencesinvisualswitchinginthe differentconditions.Weexpecttofindareductioninworkload,betterspeedandpathperformance, andreducedvisualswitching(finalresultsarepending).

Comments

Presented at the 23rd International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, May 27-30, 2025, Hosted by Oregon State University

Repository Citation

Caron, J., van Paassen, M. M., Landman, A., Stroosma, O., & Mulder, M. (2025). Peripheral Airspeed Indication for Manual Approach. Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, 30-35.
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