System and Method for Providing Model-Based Alerting of Spatial Disorientation to a Pilot

Abstract

A system and method monitor aircraft state parameters, for example, aircraft movement and flight parameters, applies those inputs to a spatial disorientation model, and makes a prediction of when pilot may become spatially disoriented. Once the system predicts a potentially disoriented pilot, the sensitivity for alerting the pilot to conditions exceeding a threshold can be increased and allow for an earlier alert to mitigate the possibility of an incorrect control input.

Authors

• Conner, Kevin J
• Mathan, Santosh
• Johnson, Steve