[simpits-tech] Motion...

Gene Buckle simpits-tech@simpits.org
Sat, 18 Jan 2003 08:17:34 -0800 (PST)


Air & Space Smithsonian carried a great article last year on this.  They
also presented cases where some pilots were suffering from the "spins"
days after being in a long simulator session.  The science of motion
simulation is probably more complex than the science of flight simulation.

g.


On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Roy Coates wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Gene Buckle wrote:
>
> > ...and the mis-matched motion cues will have you spewing all over your
> > instrument panel.  It's an illness called Simulator Sickness and it's
> > nasty as hell.
> >
>
> CAE systems in Canada who probably lead the world in motion sims
> determined that anything more than (I think) 16mS latency between visual
> and motion cues would induce chronic sickness even in experienced pilots.
>
> AS gene quite right surmises, none of us want to 'park the tiger' all over
> our nice shiny sim!
>
> Park the tiger...
> technicolor yawn...
> mayonaise niagra...
> kerbside pizza...
> liquid laugh...
>
> It's all the same  ;)
>
> Roy.
>
>
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