Cues, Feedback and Transfer in Undergraduate Pilot Training

A systematic effort was conducted to generate prescriptive statements or guidelines for designing effective training materials and procedures for undergraduate pilot training in both simulated and natural environments. In a series of studies, selected dependent variables related to instructional cues, feedback, and transfer were studied as they affected flying training. Results of these studies provided a basis for developing a model to generate instructional cues, based on a set of procedures for an objective task analysis. Further studies were then conducted to demonstrate the effect of such systematically generated cues. Finally, the generalizability of the effects of such systematically generated cues was observed to determine the effects of amount of practice during cue learning and type of instructional cue. Concomitantly, effort was devoted to the problem of developing objective and automateed procedures for measuring complex flying skills in an advanced simulator.