Comments on: Simulator sickness

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By: Helicopter Licenses

Helicopter Licenses — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:17:04 +0000

Thanks for the nice summary! I personally do not suffer from simulator sickness but many of my friends do!

By: Don Talleur

Don Talleur — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:19:38 +0000

In regard to Helicopter License’s question about the difference between simulator induced sickness and motion sickness in the actual aircraft, I’d have to say yes, there is a difference. At the very minimum, the cue conflict which induces SIS is often continual in a sim that lacks the correct motion cues for the visual information presented, whereas in the aircraft, cue conflict is often transitory and does not last, allowing the pilot to regain normal cue alignment (so to speak). That is to say, in the aircraft, the conflict is generally the result of head movement out of the plane of motion of the aircraft; the semi-circular cannals are sensing motion in a direction different from what is actually occuring. In the Sim, the semi-circular cannals are sensing the motion induced by the sim, but the visually depicted information does not jibe with the simulated motion, hence the conflict. Some amount of simulator induced motion conflict seems inevitbale, as it is difficult to simulate all three axes of motion, as well as acceleration on all three in a completely realistic way.

By: Tim McAdams

Tim McAdams — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:17:10 +0000

That’s a good question and I do not know the answer. If someone does, please comment.

Tim

By: Helicopter License

Helicopter License — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:07:02 +0000

Is there a physiological difference between motion sickness in a simulator and that which someone experiences when in an actual helicopter? You did a great job explaining the hows and whys of simulator sickness, and it makes me wonder if this applies just to simulators or in the sky as well. Great post, by the way!

By: Don Diedrich

Don Diedrich — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:32:09 +0000

I am a retired industrial designer that worked at both Beechcraft and Swearingen early in my career and I have been working on a low cost, 5-DOF motion platform for over 6 years that can fit under most “stationary” simulation cockpits. The one degree of freedom that I decided to leave out of my initial product release is SWAY, as it is the most difficult to create within a confined area and I feel it is the least of simulated motion responses required during normal flight of fixed wing aircraft operation. I am presenting a white paper at the upcoming AVSIM FANCON in Washington, D.C. in the late fall. The title of the paper is “Making all the Right Moves” and will cover in detail the what I feel are the salient combinations of physical motion responses to realtime flight data input and visual cues received by the pilot(s).

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:50:00 +0000

Thanks for the nice basic summary and guidelines. Congrats for refraining from adding all the usual unproven countermesures. Recommend including some of your lit. sources (e.g., Kennedy; McCauley) from which your comments were drawn, perhaps simply as “further reading” at the end.

By: Terry Simpkins

Terry Simpkins — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:19:04 +0000

Great article. If you ever get to the San Diego area stop and spend some time in the FLYIT Professional Helicopter Simulators.
We have have alot of hands on experience and have a lot of solutions to the simulator sickness issues. Over the last 12 years of demonstrations and training we have only had 2 people have simulator sickness and it was totally visual. They were both helicopter pilots.
They also adapted very quickly after they had their simulators to use regularly.