Cockpit Task Management Bibliography
Cockpit Task Management Bibliography |
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| TITLE: | Visual Scanning and Pilot Expertise: The Role of Attentional Flexibility and Mental Model Development. |
| PUBLISHER: | Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine. Vol. 68(7), July, 1997 |
| KEYWORDS: | expert, novice, dwell, task switching, flexible scanning strategy, mental model |
| SUMMARY: | A simulator experiment that compared the performance of novice and expert pilots. Expert pilots performed better in almost every metric. The reasons given for this are: 1) shorter dwells and more frequent visits to most instruments, 2) adapted their scanning strategy to the task requirements, 3) demonstrated a better mental model of flight characteristics, 4) showed more frequent checking of axes whose values remained constant. |
SIGNIFICANT CONCEPTS/EXCERPTS:
(From conclusions, pg. 578) "Such finding have important implications for how novices might be better trained if, in deed, one shortcut to expertise involves the targeted training of expert strategies. In particular, we believe that better understanding of cross-coupling, of the need to check unchanging axes, and possibly the introduction of enhanced targeted practice on ADI information extraction, might provide cornerstones for more efficient, theory-based, pilot training."
Several references to D. Gopher's work on attention.
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