LESSONS LEARNED IN APPLYING SIMULATORS TO CREWSTATION EVALUATION

As crewstations have become more sophisticated, crewstation designers have tried to evaluate them earlier in their development (to minimize design changes) and in simulators (to minimize evaluation costs). Howe ver, selecting the simulator to use during evaluation is driven more b y simulator usage costs and availability than by an analysis of the si mulator features needed for an effective crewstation evaluation. This problem stems in part from a lack of well-documented lessons learned i n identifying which simulator features are required to produce the sam e results as those obtained in flight. Such a set of lessons learned h as been collected and is presented in this article.