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Method.
Participants.
In this study, 30 volunteered pilots, currently certified to fly, from various commercial airlines are participated. The participants received extra credit for their participations from their original airline. There is no restriction toward age or sex in this experiment. .
Material.
Simulator - The study used FLY II PMDG desktop simulators, which operate on PC platforms. Although, the simulator uses keystroke and mouse input rather than realistic controls (e.g. rudder controls or stick), the automation software displays all relevant information available in the real aircraft and has all relevant automation functions operating in the same manner. It has been reported that, the simulation functioned reasonably well in simulating the responses of a real aircraft. At least ten desktop simulators will be needed and the experiment must be conducted in the condition of quiet room. In the account of cost reduction, it has been considered to the use of approximately 12 simulator machines (2 extra machines are to be spared).
CD player and music CDs - Music equipments are needed in this study. Sony CD players are in use included stack of music CDs consisted of Mozart and Metallica. The volume of the CD players will be set judiciously at level 5. .
Word list - The flash program is installed in every single simulator desktop. The modification of the program allows the combination of the flash program itself with the fly simulator program. The word will appear on the monitor for 2 seconds and followed by another word in every 5 minutes from the word list respectively. The word list is consisted with 10 different words.
Paper and pens - These materials are in use to write down the words appeared on the computer monitor during the task of flying the simulator after the task done.
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Procedure.
The participants will be asked to fly the simulator. The scenario consisted of take-off, climb, cruise, descent, and landing, this will last approximately 50 minutes.