TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Air force pilot expertise assessment with regard to mental effort requested during unusual attitude recovery flight training simulations
JO  - Safety (Basel)
A1  - Borghini, Gianluca
A1  - Aricò, Pietro
A1  - Di Flumeri, Gianluca
A1  - Ronca, Vincenzo
A1  - Giorgi, Andrea
A1  - Sciaraffa, Nicolina
A1  - Conca, Claudio
A1  - Stefani, Simone
A1  - Verde, Paola
A1  - Landolfi, Angelo
A1  - Isabella, Roberto
A1  - Babiloni, Fabio
SP  - e38
EP  - e38
VL  - 8
IS  - 2
N2  - Pilot training and expertise are key aspects in aviation. A traditional way of evaluating pilot expertise is to measure performance output. However, this approach provides a narrow view of the pilot's capacity, especially with regard to mental and emotional profile. The aim of this study is hence to investigate whether neurophysiological data can be employed as an additional objective measure to assess the expertise of pilots. In this regard, it has been demonstrated that mental effort can be used as an indirect measure of operator expertise and capacity. An increase in mental effort, for instance, can automatically result in a decrease in the remaining capacity of the operator. To better investigate this aspect, we ask two groups of Italian Air Force pilots, experienced (Experts) and unexperienced (Novices), to undergo unusual attitude recovery flight training simulations. Their behavioral (unusual attitude recovery time), subjective (mental effort demand perception) and neurophysiological data (Electroencephalogram, EEG; Electrocardiogram, ECG) are collected during the entire flight simulations. Although the two groups do not exhibit differences in terms of unusual attitude recovery time and mental effort demand perception, the EEG-based mental effort index shows how Novices request significantly higher mental effort during unusual conditions.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2313-576X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/safety8020038
ID  - ref1
ER  -