In-flight Pilot Workload Assessment for High School Students

This project will consist of administering a game like test to high school students to evaluate their effectiveness in an aircraft piloting environment. This test will not be a flight simulator, rather it will test their mental workload through the use of simplified inputs and outputs which correlate to real life piloting. The inputs and outputs contain physical and verbal responses from the participant. The test will be broken up into four phases of flight (take off, climb and cruise, approach, and landing) which will each require a unique ratio of "talk to move" responses. Their average heart rate will also by measured for each phase of flight. Average BPM is a widely used measurement tool of mental stress. The goal is to correlate the results with other professional studies (one source will be attached) and make a claim on the effectiveness of untrained high school students.