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Probing into the Evaluation of Flight Training in Special Environment based on EMGs

2015; Elsevier BV; Volume: 3; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.463

2351-9789

Ludan Zhang, Wenbo Zhang, Zhaowei Zhu, Li Ding,

Occupational Health and Performance

Flight training especially the training on aircraft carriers which includes taking off and landing on the shipboard has been more and more important. But the training scheme now is almost based on the experience of predecessor and the efficiency can not satisfy the demand. Effective methods of evaluating training performance are in urgent need. This article is probing into the methods of evaluating pilot training based on the simulative flight environment of carrier aircraft on the sea. 10 participants were selected in this experiment as subjects. The learning and training scheme had been formulated and the optimal mission had been set out based on a Microsoft software 'Flight Simulator X'. A retired FT-6 was adapted as the cockpit. The EMGs of biceps brachii was recorded when the subject executed the mission. By analyzing the 10 subjects' EMGs data, it was found that the subjects were easily getting anxious under pressure before the training. Particularly when the aircraft was closed to the shipboard in the mission, muscle shiver leaded to a high increase of fatigue level. But the increase of muscle fatigue level was obviously lower after the training when the subjects can control the plane better and become less nervous, which indicated that the subjects' psychological diathesis was improved and the degree of tension was declined through the training. Meanwhile, subjects' performance was well improved after training, which can combine with EMG. The conclusions had been drawn as follows: (a) effective training made a decline in fatigue levels of pilots' muscle; (b) the decline in fatigue of muscle was of benefit to mission success; (c) EMG which can indicate the fatigue of muscle and then indicate the quality of flight performance was applicable to serve as an effective training-monitor index to some extent. Therefore, this article provided a reference to other studies on special flight environment and formulated an effective training-monitor method.