Eye movement comparison of professional and novice pilots in key actions of takeoff phase

In order to make up the drawback of traditional skill assessment that is too subjective, the eye tracking has already been applied to various fields. Based on research on eye movement of flying skills, it is found that the average fixation time and eye moving trace of professional pilot varies from that of novice. It is still unclear the changes in eye movement data during key actions after improvement of flight control skill. For the purpose of further understanding these changes, the thesis takes the takeoff phase as the simulated flight mission and makes rules for assessing performance level with speed, heading, bank and pitch angle as parameters by referring to the practice test standard so as to grade simulated flight of pilots. Students and professional pilots are recruited as subjects for the test. Then correlation analysis carried on their performances and fixation count, fixation point percentage, total fixation time, fixation time percentage and average fixation time respectively. The results show that pilots' performances are related to the fixation count greatly. In the comparison of subjects in key actions of take-off, it is found the drawbacks of students in attention allocation and information extraction. These founding can provide a detailed guideline in training of flight cadets.