General Aviation Pilot Performance Following Unannounced In-Flight Loss of Vacuum System and Associated Instruments in Simulated Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Roy KM and Beringer DB

FAA Office of Aerospace Medicine - Civil Aerospace Medical Institute

关键词: Vacuum Failure;    Partial Panel;    Attitude Indicator;    Pilot Performance;   

RP-ID  :  DOT/FAA/AM-02/19

美国|英语

来源: Federal Aviation Administration

【 摘 要 】

Forty-one instrument-rated pilots were exposed to an unannounced failure of attitude and heading instrumentation during flight in single-engine general aviation aircraft: 25 in a Piper Archer PA-28 and 16 in a Beechcraft Bonanza A36. The PA-28 flights consisted of three groups: (1) Group A � a failure of the attitude indicator (AI) and directional gyro (DG), (2) Group B � same as Group A but received 30 minutes of partial-panel instruction in a personal-computer-based aviation training device (PCATD) prior to the flight, and (3) Group C � same as group A but had a failure-annunciator light (vacuum) on the panel. The A36 flights consisted of two groups: (1) Group A � a failure of the AI only, (2) Group B � a failure of the AI and the horizontal situation indicator (HSI).