Abstract
Maintaining situation awareness by obtaining information from instruments is important for aircraft pilots in terms of safety flight. With recent improvements of technology, the amount of information pilots have to deal with is keeping rising. Even more, pilots have to manage lots of tasks (ex. aircraft control) simultaneously. It makes pilots difficult to utilize information. To reveal the relationship between utilization of information and multi-task ability, pilots and non pilots took dual-task test (pursuit tracking and spatial working memory tasks) which was simplification of aircraft control elements. Then pilots' data were compared to superior evaluation of flight skills. Pilots' performance was better in dual-task condition, which was correlated with tracking performance in single-task condition. Single-tracking performance was correlates with skill evaluation. Results suggest that to utilize lots of information, control skill is important in multi-task environments in flight.
