Abstract
This paper recounts ongoing attempts to develop a system of performance measures (PM's) for the Air Refueling Part-Task Trainers which will be used by the Military Airlift Command (MAC) for currency training of C-5/C-141 aircrews. The database at present includes over 30,000 observations on a total of 22 student pilots and 3 instructor pilots. Subjects were observed during their participation in the ARPTT course at Boeing-Kent, Washington. Representative multivariate analyses were conducted on subsamples of the data with movement of the simulated receiver aircraft along the roll, pitch and yaw axes and relative movement forward-aft, azimuth and vertical comprising the independent variables, and time spent in the refueling envelope the dependent.
The most important predictor was movement about the fore-aft axis relative to the tanker. No others were significant. The implications of these and related findings as to aircrew training and PM development are discussed.
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