From: hitchner@netcom.com (Lew Hitchner) Subject: Re: APPS: VR car simulator Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 21:04:51 GMT Message-ID: Organization: Independent VR Consultant From hitchner@netcom.com (Lew Hitchner) On 15 Aug 1995 07:43:56 GMT Robert Jacobson (cyberoid@u.washington.edu) wrote: : I'm unaware of as comprehensive a simulator in North America. I also am not aware of an accident simulator with such a wide dynamic range motion platform in N. Amer. However, there is a research flight simlator at NASA Ames Res. Center in Mountain View, CA (South SF Bay area) in the HPRL (Human Performance Res. Lab) where psychologists work with active commercial ariline pilots to simulate trans-Pacific filghts, i.e., for the actual full flight duration time. NASA researchers tested various sleep/awake regimes for pilots enroute using this system. They then observed pilot performance and alertness during landing, and I would guess also with simulated abnormal events during landing. Recommendations were made based upon these studies so that, I believe, it is now standard practice for pilots to take lengthy naps during such long flights. -- Lew Hitchner 500 W. Middlefield Rd. #34 email: hitchner@netcom.com Mountain View, CA 94043 URL: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hi/hitchner/vrnews.html