The thermal comfort of a pilot is of crucial importance to maintain a high level of concentration and awareness during the entire flight mission. In this work a model for the thermal environment of the cockpit is developed and used as provider of input parameters to a thermoregulatory model, adopted from the literature, of a human. The cockpit-pilot model will be used to investigate and improve the thermal comfort for the pilot, particularly during longer flight missions. In the cockpit model a combination of lumped systems and finite difference calculations is used to obtain input parameters, which are provided to the pilot model. The body, with clothes, is divided into 16 segments and a finite difference method is used to determine the temperature distribution within these. Several physiological mechanisms are included in the model. Simulations with different boundary conditions show that the models work properly even for longer missions.
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