Behavioral Taxonomy of Undergraduate Pilot Training Tasks and Skills: Taxonomy Refinement, Validation and Operations

The objective is to analyze and specify the fundamental flying abilities which comprise the training objectives of Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT). The results of this study will be used as a basis for structuring research on and recommendations for improvements in Air Force flying training progr...

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Main Authors: Meyer,Robert P, Laveson,Jack I, Weissman,Neal S, Eddowes,Edward E
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
AIR FORCE TRAINING
APTITUDES
CLASSIFICATION
Humanities and History
JOB ANALYSIS
Pilot training
PILOTS
SKILLS
TAXONOMY
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Summary:The objective is to analyze and specify the fundamental flying abilities which comprise the training objectives of Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT). The results of this study will be used as a basis for structuring research on and recommendations for improvements in Air Force flying training programs. The flight training maneuvers of UPT were analyzed according to a breakdown of task elements into the cues, mental actions and motor actions required to accomplish them. Flying tasks analyzed were found to fall into three categories: fundamental transitions, composite transitions and continuous transitions. A set of classification rules were developed to locate any flying training task element in a specific 'pigeon hole' within a taxonomic cubic structure with a cue, motor actions and mental actions serving respectively as the vertical, horizontal and depth axes of the cube. During this phase of the study, 22 additional flight tasks were analyzed supplementing the 14 tasks analyzed previously. All the tasks analyzed were classified and the resulting skill data were further categorized according to a hierarchy of taxonomic rules. The taxonomic hierarchy was adapted to a matrix system of information categorization which was found to provide for simplified data retrieval. See also report dated Jan 74, AD-A000 053.