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Validity Study of Questionnaire Items of the Pilot Aptitude Personality Test (조종적성인성검사 문항개발 타당도 연구)

  • Yoon, Youkyung;Park, Seikwon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 2018
  • The pilot aptitude test so far has been conducted with a dichotomous concept of cognitive factor and non-cognitive factor, so it was not easy to explain concrete factors about pilot aptitude. Therefore, an integrated approach is needed to construct pilot aptitude test including all factors that can predict pilot aptitude. In previous study, we developed questionnaire items for the Pilot Aptitude Personality Test(PAPT) which can predict the flight training achievement through personality and personal characteristics. And those items were categorized as personality, cognition, and motivation factors. The flight training grades were correlated with all the test factors of the items, and the cognitive factors were high. As a result of the regression analysis, the total score of the three factors together accounted for 16% of the flight training grades. The results of the ANOVA showed that the cognition factors and motivation factors had significant effects on the completion of the flight training. The factors of PAPT predicted not only the completion of the flight training but also the flight performance. This is because the existing paper-pencil pilot aptitude test can only discriminate the flight training completion status. This is also a result of the fact that the introductory flight training consists of various factors including not only basic cognition but also personality and motivation.

Comparison Study on Take-Off and Landing Flight Test Using Ground Observation and DGPS Method (지상관측법 및 DGPS 기법을 활용한 이/착륙 성능 비행시험 비교)

  • Lee, Sang-Jong;Chang, Jae-Won;Jeon, Byoung-Ho;Seong, Kiej-Jeong;Yeom, Chan-Hong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.37 no.9
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    • pp.931-938
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    • 2009
  • The flight test is last means of compliance to satisfy airworthiness standards and important to evaluate the performance and safety of the developed aircraft. The flight test technologies are obtained from great numbers of experiences and know-hows and protected. In addition, flight test should be conducted efficiently since its various test conditions and items. Therefore, it is requisite to secure efficient flight test methods. This paper discusses the flight test methods for take-off and landing performance and two kinds of techniques are proposed. By performing real flight tests, they are compared with each other and analyzed through the flight analysis.

The Analysis of Flight Data Processing System (비행자료 처리시스템 분석)

  • Kim, Do-woo;Oh, Seung Hee;Lee, Deok Gyu;Lee, Seoung Hyeon;Han, Jong-wook
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.785-788
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    • 2009
  • The flight data processing system is the system which processes and manages all flight related data for the aircraft control and performs the trajectory modeling. It takes charge of the role of performing the core function of the integrated information processing system for the flight control. For the safe aircraft's flight, the information transfer and exchange among air traffic control units are the essential element through the flight data processing. Therefore, for the development of the flight data processing system we are going to analyze its function and look into the necessary consideration in a design in this paper.

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A Study on developing Flight Software for Nano-satellite based on NASA CFS (NASA CFS에 기반한 초소형 위성용 비행소프트웨어 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Won-sub;Kim, Jin-Hyoung;Kim, Hae-dong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.44 no.11
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    • pp.997-1005
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    • 2016
  • Flight software plays an important role in operating satellites, such as processing commands from ground station, controlling satellites and processing mission data. Reliability is the most important thing in flight software and many verifications and tests are needed for assuring it. this causes an increase of cost and period of development. So NASA has developed a reusable flight software platform to apply to their satellite projects. The CFS(Core Flight System) is the very result. We are developing our flight software for a nano-satellite based on NASA CFS. We have tested core services and functions provided in CFS and we have designed and implemented flight software based on these.

Research about Designation of Restricted Area Dedicated for Remote Piloted Aircraft Flight Test (무인항공기 비행시험 전용 제한구역 설정에 관한 연구)

  • Kee, Yeho
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.25-33
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    • 2015
  • Global market of unmanned aircraft(UA) is rapidly expending based on the versatile and efficient utility of the UA. Domestically many industries, universities and research institutes are trying to do research and development of the UA in various angle of aspect. In spite of these effort, all the participants of research and development of the UA has been suffering the difficulty of acquiring the airspace around vicinity of Goheung airfield for the flight test of UA. Although the current procedure of execution of the flight test of UA is set after acquiring the airspace by applying the NOTAM(Notice To Air Man) to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport(MLIT) at least 7 days before the flight test and commencing with the publication of the NOTAM by MLIT, if the flight test is carried out as planned, changing or reapplying the NOTAM expends mort time and makes difficulty often. Therefore it is needed that a restricted airspace for the flight test of UA is established and make all the executioner of flight test uses the exclusive airspace without limitation. This research proposes the restricted airspace with short term and long term establish requirement of airspace separately. The short term requirement has been established with the airspace of 10 nm radius and 8,000 ft altitude in which the requirements of flight test can be carried out more than 90% without needs of supplement of the additional airspace. The long term has been established within the airspace of 30 nm radius which is the maximum Radio Line Of Sight(RLOS) and 8,000 ft altitude with exclusion of current air way, airport control area, approaching corridor to the airport, existing restricted area(RA) and Military Operating Area(MOA) for the purpose of minimizing inconvenience of the other airspace user. Once establishing the exclusive airspace for the flight test of UA, research and development of industries, universities and research institutes will be more vigorous and contributes to the national economy.

Wearing Comfort Evaluation of a Summer Flight Suit to Improve Ventilation (통기성 향상을 위한 하계비행복 설계 및 착용쾌적성 평가)

  • Jeon, Eun-Jin;Park, Sei-Kwon;You, Hee-Cheon;Kim, Hee-Eun
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.485-491
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    • 2014
  • This study verified the effect of summer flight ventilation developed in a previous study based on wearing comfort evaluation. Seven healthy males in their twenties volunteered for this experiment conducted in aclimatic chamber. The experiment consisted of three consecutive periods of rest (20 minutes), running on a treadmill (10 minutes) and recovery (20 minutes). A comparative evaluation was conducted on the general flight suit which had no ventilation holes and summer flight suit that use subjective satisfaction measures and objective measures. The subjective satisfaction was evaluated according to the criteria of temperature sensation, wet sensation, thermal comfort and fatigue sensation. The objective satisfaction was measured by skin temperature, microclimate (temperature and humidity), sweat rate and thermography. The comparative wearing evaluation identified the summer flight suit decreased the temperature between skin and suit by $0.42^{\circ}C$ (upper arm), $0.9^{\circ}C$ (calf) and the skin temperature by $0.3^{\circ}C$ (shoulder), $0.4^{\circ}C$ (upper arm), $0.5^{\circ}C$ (calf) as compared to the general flight suit. The humidity inside the summer flight suit decreased at head (7.73%), shoulder (5.86%), upper arm (5.26%), and calf (8.73%) compared to the one inside the general flight suit. Thermography showed that the air flowed through ventilation holes (neck and armpit). The design of ventilation holes applied to the summer flight suit can be applicable to overall clothing that requires thermal comfort such as dust-free garments, mechanical clothing and combat uniforms.

Implementation and Evaluation of Flight Tasks in Instrument Flight Simulator (계기비행 시뮬레이터에서 비행 임무의 평가 및 구현)

  • Hwang, Soo-Chan;Baek, Joong-Hwan
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.11-22
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    • 2000
  • Instrument flight simulators are used for training the interpretation and operation techniques for all kinds of aircraft instruments, cockpit procedures, etc., in order that pilots cope with the situations which can be occurred in actual flight. However, the simulators developed so far are concerned about operating in same environment to actual aircraft. And little researches concentrate on developing systematic training system for basic tasks and takeoff-landing procedures, and automatic evaluation methods on the training results. Therefore, in this paper, we propose implementation and evaluation methods for flight tasks such as tasks in flight, takeoff-landing procedures and course flight.

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A Study on Efficient Training Methods by Analyzing Differences inSpatial Disorientation Recovery according to Pilot Experience (조종사 경력별 공간정위상실(SD) 회복 차이 분석을 통한효율적인 훈련방안에 대한 연구)

  • Se-Jun Kim;Young-Jin Cho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.18-24
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    • 2023
  • According to the results of a survey by Boeing, LOC-I (Loss of Control in Flight) was the highest in the number of deaths by fatality accident category in the past 10 years from 2012 to 2021, and the number of deaths worldwide due to LOC-I accidents was 757. It turned out to be the biggest cause of aircraft fatalities, with a figure close to twice the sum of UNK (Unknown or Undetermined), which is the 2nd place, and CFIT (Controlled Flight Into or Toward Terrain), which is the 3rd place. This study set six scenarios related to spatial disorientation that may occur during sensory-dependent flight targeting student pilots and instructor pilots at domestic designated specialized educational institutions using flight simulation training equipment, and in each scenario, the pilot's. The need for SDRT (Spatial Disorientation Recovery Training) is verified by analyzing the flight experience and recovery ability by qualification, and SDRT is repeatedly performed to verify and present the training cycle and time.

A Relative Position Estimation System using Digital Beam Forming and ToA for Automatic Formation Flight of UAV (UAV 자동 편대비행을 위한 디지털 빔포밍 및 ToA 기반의 상대위치 추정 시스템)

  • Kim, Jae-Wan;Yoon, Jun-Yong;Joo, Yang-Ick
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.17 no.9
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    • pp.1092-1097
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    • 2014
  • It is difficult to perform automatic formation flight of UAV (Unmanned Aerial vehicle) when GPS (Global Positionig System) is out of order or has a system error, since the relative position estimation in the flight group is impossible in that case. In this paper, we design a relative localization system for the automatic formation flight of UAV. For this purpose, we adopt digital beam forming (DBF) to estimate the angle with the central controller of the flight group and Particle Filtering scheme to compensate the estimation error of ToA (time of arrival) method. Computer simulation results present a proper distance between the central controller and a following unit to maintain the automatic formation flight.

Development of Automatic flight Control System for Low Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (저가형 무인 항공기의 자동비행시스템 개발)

  • Yoo, Hyuk;Lee, Jang-Ho;Kim, Jae-Eun;An, Yi-Ki
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.131-138
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    • 2004
  • Automatic flight control system (AFCS) for a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle is described in this paper. Development process and block diagram of the AFCS are introduced. The flight control law for longitudinal and lateral channel autopilot is designed using optimization process. In this procedure, the performance index is composed of desired location of closed loop system poles and H$_2$norm of the resultant flight control system. This procedure is applied to the autopilot design of an unmanned target vehicle. Performance of the AFCS is evaluated by processor-in-the-loop simulation test and flight test. These results show that the AFCS has acceptable performance fur low cost UAV.