ABSTRACT
In practice, inexperienced pilots tend to excessively manipulate the aircraft control stick when attempting to direct an aircraft into a desired attitude. This causes piloting inaccuracies, which may lead to undesired flight situations. The objective of this paper was to identify the relationship between accuracy, or more precisely piloting error rate, and the physical activity of the pilot’s upper limb. Effort was also made to prove the fact that inaccurate upper limb input can be detected by means of values measured by an accelerometer. The evaluation was performed with 10 subjects during flight training with the main focus on evaluating the error rate during execution of climbing and descent 180° turn. The measurements were made on TRD40 flight simulator, evaluated by the proposed methodology of processing accelerometer data, and subsequently compared with real error rates calculated from flight data. The results confirmed a correlation between error rates inferred from flight data and error rates determined based on the accelerometer data. Because the research conducted in the domain is a pilot study, the results provide opportunities for discussion and possibilities of further research.
