[019] DOES FLIGHT SIMULATION IMPROVE INITIAL INSTRUMENT TRAINING FLIGHT PERFORMANCE?

摘要

INTRODUCTION: It seems intuitively obvious that use of a high fidelity, FAA approved advanced aviation training device (AATD) would be helpful in the early training of aviators in instrument procedures such as scanning of instruments and maintaining altitude while referencing only aircraft instruments. But what seems obvious is not always true. METHODS: A group of residents in Aerospace Medicine, all of whom had previously been trained to the level of solo flight in a light civilian aircraft, were divided randomly into two groups. Group 1 residents had four individual 1.25-hour instrument lessons taught by an FAA Certified Flight Instrument Instructor (CFII) on an AATD simulator. Group 2 residents had no instrument simulator training. All residents (Group 1 and Group 2) then underwent four 1.25-hour, in-aircraft, instrument instructional flights.