Validation of the Effectiveness of Simulator Experience vs Real-World Operational Experience in the Port of Valdez

摘要

This study was designed to examine the effectiveness of simulator exposure and real-world observational experience in the Port of Valdez, Alaska in the learning of ship handling skills. Masters were tested on a simulated pilotage through teh Valdez Narrows at the Maritime Administration's Computer Aided Operations Research Facility (CAORF) at Kings Point, New York. Performance data, measured as track deviation and percentage of time out of a prescribed tolerance band indicated equivalent performance for those masters with simulator experience or real-world observational exposure and significantly poorer performance for those masters with neither simulator nor real-world Valdez experience. (Author)