Civil Aerospace Medical Institute.
Author
Series
DOT/FAA/AM volume 06/8
Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
This research focuses on three types of flight control problems associated with unmanned aircraft systems. The three flight control problems are: external pilot difficulties with inconsistent mapping of the controls to the movement of the aircraft; difficulties associated with the transfer of control from one control location to another during the flight; and problems associated the automation of flight control. Specific accidents associated with...
Author
Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Introduction : Skepticism exists whether normobaric and hypobaric hypoxic exposures are equivalent. We have evaluated if physiological differences between the two environments would translate into actual differences in hypoxia symptoms. Methods : We exposed 20 subjects to 5-min 25,000 ft (7620 m) equivalent environments in an altitude chamber and then in a ground-level portable reduced-oxygen training enclosure (PROTE). Heart rate and hemoglobin...