Abstract
The use of a variety of idealized tracking tasks as a means of studying the effects of simulator time delay has been ongoing for five years at the Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory (AAMRL). Results from these studies generated some interest in evaluating more complex tasks. Based on related in-flight research, a sidestep landing task scenario was selected as a means of making the simulator task more realistic and also sensitive to the effects of time delay. In this experiment, twelve subjects were placed in a final-approach landing configuration and later cued to sidestep to an adjacent, parallel runway. Subjects completed 40 trials in each of three time delay conditions (90,200, and 300 ms) in a latin square design. Significant differences were discovered among the delay conditions in the approach and landing performance data.
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