[Rhodes22-list] Flying - Enough!

[Benjamin Cittadino]

BRAD;

Don't you remember that great scene from "The High and The Mighty" where
John Wayne ( in the right hand seat) slaps Robert Stack (Command Pilot)
after Stack's character loses it under the stress. Stack's character then
says, "Thanks, I needed that". Great stuff. We could just put a mechanical
hand atop your hat that would whack you when you get overloaded. We could
even modify it to whack you at appropriate moments when you are posting
here. .

Great idea,

BenC.

Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> 
> Getting a checkride in a sim every six months isn't all that bad,
> ditto a medical exam.  I don't mind the EKG's now that they don't use
> those sticky suction cups.  The cups they use for piss tests aren't
> THAT small.  Scheduled annual line checks, random FAA line checks and
> ramp checks, cockpit voice recorders, flight data recorders, calls
> from dispatch, FBI fingerprinting, etc., all part of the job - "if you
> can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen". All the bells and
> whistles, talking boxes, warning lights, and so on - wonderful stuff!
> BUT, the day I show for work and they try and fit me for one of these
> things I'm out the door and headed for early retirement.
> 
> Brad
> 
> -----------------
> 
> Original URL:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/27/nasa_brain_monitor_hats/
> NASA developing brain-monitor hats for airline pilots
> 
> 'YOU ARE OVERSTRESSED! YOU ARE OVERSTRESSED!'
> 
> By Lewis Page
> 
> Posted in Space, 27th November 2008 10:11 GMT
> 
> 
> 
> US aerospace agency NASA has announced that it is developing a
> brain-monitoring hat for airline pilots to wear. The idea is that the
> bonce-clocking headset will know when pilots become "mentally
> overloaded" and help them to "realise" this.
> 
> The brain-titfers are being developed at NASA's Glenn Research Center
> using "functional near infrared spectroscopy" (fNIRS, apparently) and
> "other imaging technology". The spectroscope hats work by measuring
> blood flow in the cortex and the concentration of oxygen in the blood.
> NASA describes them as "non-invasive, safe, portable and inexpensive".
> The kit is being tried out on guinea-pig pilots in simulators at
> Glenn.
> 
> "No matter how much training pilots have, conditions could occur when
> too much is going on in the cockpit," said NASA biomedical engineer
> Angela Harrivel.
> 
> "What we hope to achieve by this study is a way to sensitively - and,
> ultimately, unobtrusively - determine when pilots become mentally
> overloaded ... Flying an aircraft involves multitasking that
> potentially can push the limits of human performance," she adds.
> 
> There's no word on just how the mindprobe hats would actually help a
> maxed-out pilot to cope. Presumably triggering flashing lights and a
> loud recorded voice repeatedly shouting "YOU ARE MENTALLY OVERLOADED!
> CALM DOWN!" wouldn't actually be of much assistance.
> 
> Perhaps some kind of mechanical arm able to slap a panicking flyboy
> round the chops or throw water in his face might be in order. NASA are
> obviously still working on this bit.
> 
> There's more from NASA on the Integrated Intelligent Flight Deck
> project - which oversees the brain-hat tech - here
> (http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/avsafe/iifd/).(R)
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