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- Pursuit of a leading. plane such that a given separation be maintained at all times.
- Homing in on a target, persuit and attack of another plane.
- Finally return to airfield and land.
Mission FPS 05:
An endless tunnel appears on the screen comprising a series of concentric squares and a white
line approaching the viewer through the center of the bottom edges. The squares appear to
approach the viewer by diverging from the centre. The apparent speed of approach of these
squares (which remains constant) simulates the speed of flying through the tunnel. Rotation of
the squares transmits a sensation of banking in the opposite direction. Similarly changes in the
relative displacement of opposite sides (left and right for the tunnel bending, top and bottom for
the tunnel rising and dipping) create effects of the tunnel changing direction and orientation.
These effects communicate themselves to the candidate not as changes in the tunnel however,
but as changes in the attitude of the plane. The alignment of the squares can be restored by the
appropriate control inputs, which in turn restores the impression of level flight.
These effects are accentuated by examination pressure and the feeling of sensory deprivation
caused by a closed cockpit. This is so realistic to some candidates that they experience a sensation
of air-sickness.
Statistical Evaluation
The evaluation of the missions is performed in 3 steps, viz:
1) Data compression
2) Determination ofcorrelations between FPS missions and flight performance in the Screening.
3) Calculation of transformed test results.
Table 1 gives an overview of the number of variables to be processed from each mission.
Table 1: Number of variables per mission
Mission 01: 7 sections of 11 variables.
Mission 02: 11 sections of 11 variables (times 3 circuits).
Mission 03: I8 sections of 11 variables.
Mission 04: 16 sections of 11 variables.
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Mission 05: 9 sections of 9 variables. c-..
‘llis gives a total of 895 processed variables for all 5 missions. This implies ca. 130 kByte raw
data per candidate. Thus a condensation of data is necessary to enable evaluation. (Details of
this condensation procedure are to be found in an exhaustive paper on the subject shortly to be
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