flight experiment, helicopter, pilot visual cues, dead and injured, accident, commuter, leisure, agricultural chemical, cargo transportation, human engineering, transportation safety, in flight experiment, high voltage cable
National Aerospace Laboratory Control Systems Division
National Aerospace Laboratory Control Systems Division
National Aerospace Laboratory Flight Research Division
National Aerospace Laboratory Flight Research Division
National Aerospace Laboratory Control Systems Division
出版者
航空宇宙技術研究所
出版者(英)
National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL)
雑誌名
航空宇宙技術研究所資料
雑誌名(英)
Technical Memorandum of National Aerospace Laboratory
Recently, the number of dead and injured by helicopter accidents has been rapidly increasing. One of the reasons is that the number of helicopters being utilized by commuters and for leisure is increasing, in addition to use for spraying agricultural chemicals or for cargo transportation. Among the accidents, there are still many cases in which contact is made with power lines when spraying of an agricultural chemical. The National Aerospace Laboratory of the Science and Technology Agency (STA) conducted an urgent research for helicopter transportation safety in order to study the causal factors of helicopter accidents. In the research, several experiments were conducted. This report describes the following two cases based on in-flight experiment recordings: (1) flight experiment results to measure the helicopter pilot's visibility of high-voltage cables which exist in a mountainous region; and (2) flight experiment to obtain helicopter pilot's visibility acquisition performance when spraying of an agricultural chemical.