PILOT EVALUATIONS OF AUGMENTED FLIGHT SIMULATOR MOTION

In an earlier paper it was proposed that the turbulence-induced motion of a flight simulator could be augmented without affecting the visual and instrument displays. This may be necessary if the simulator's was hout filters severely restrict its motion response to atmospheric turb ulence. The present study has implemented the proposed technique on th e University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies flight researc h simulator, and carried out pilot evaluations for both high-altitude and low-altitude operations in the presence of atmospheric turbulence. The results indicate that the technique can successfully increase the simulator's motion response to turbulence in a manner that is accepta ble to pilots. It was found that a simple second-order transfer functi on representation of the aircraft is sufficient within the motion augm entation channel. The resulting motions were judged to add to the real ism of the simulation and to compare favorably with other training sim ulators.