Non-prescription Drug Training for Pilots

描述(由申请人提供)：这项建议是对一个系统的直接回应，该系统声称需要“……在飞行训练和体检期间教育和提醒飞行员，并提供抗组胺药物(和非处方药)的不良影响和相关的不良严重后果的真实例子。”航空医学文献中规定的这一要求承认，非处方药(OTCD)滥用在所有三个主要航空部门：通用航空、商业航空和军事航空的严重(致命)飞机事故中发挥着重要作用。目前，在典型的飞行训练方案中，对OTCD对飞行员技能的影响关注较少。然而，有充分的证据表明，通过让实习飞行员实际体验他们必须学习的飞行条件和要求，才能最有效地完成飞行员培训。此外，几年来，联邦航空管理局已经认证了用于培训目的的各种类型的飞行模拟器的使用。这些飞行模拟器已经得到了非常有效的使用，在为学员飞行员提供在实际飞行条件下尝试可能会过于危险的体验方面特别有用。该项目旨在开发OTCD培训计划FlyFit！，该计划可以增强现有的飞行模拟器，并模拟在不同程度的OTCD滥用影响下的飞行后果。这将通过在飞行模拟器上使用规定的飞行方案进行一系列受控实验来实现，不使用OTCD(对照)和使用OTCD和安慰剂(试验组)。与控制条件的偏差将在FlyFit中确定和实施！程序，然后可以用来教飞行员在OTCD影响下飞行的可能影响。 与公共健康相关：联邦航空管理局已经认识到，在所有主要航空部门的严重(致命)飞机事故中，非处方药(OTCD)对健康构成重大威胁。这一领域的试点培训显然是不够的，最好是通过实践学习经验来解决。拟议的产品开发将导致OTCD培训计划FlyFit！的推出，该计划将增强现有的飞行模拟器培训计划，以模拟或演示受OTCD影响的飞行员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a direct response to a stated need for a system to " ....educate and alert aviators during their flight training and medical examinations, with real-life examples of the adverse effects of antihistamines (and over-the-counter-drugs) and associated unwanted serious outcomes." This requirement, specified in the aviation medicine literature, recognizes that over-the-counter drug (OTCD) abuse plays a significant role in serious (fatal) aircraft accidents in all three major aviation sectors: general, commercial and military. At present, effects of OTCD on piloting skills are paid little attention in typical flight training programs. However, there is ample evidence that pilot training is most effectively done by having student pilots actually experience the flight conditions and requirements they must learn. Further, the Federal Aviation Administration has, for several years, certified the use of various types of flight simulators for training purposes. These flight simulators have been used very effectively, and are particularly useful in providing student pilots with experiences which might be unduly dangerous to attempt in actual flight conditions. This project is intended to lead to development of an OTCD training program, FlyFit!, which can augment existing flight simulators and mimic the consequences of flight under the effects of varying degrees of OTCD abuse. This will be done by performing a series of controlled experiments using prescribed flight protocols on a flight simulator without OTCD use (control) and with OTCD and placebo consumption (test groups). Deviations from the control conditions will be determined and implemented in the FlyFit! program, which can then be used to teach pilots the likely effects of flight under the influence of OTCD. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Federal Aviation Administration has recognized that over-the-counter-drugs (OTCD) pose a significant health threat in serious (fatal) aircraft accidents in all major aviation sectors. Pilot training in this area is clearly inadequate, and is best addressed by hands- on learning experience. The proposed product development will lead to FlyFit!, an OTCD training program, augmenting existing flight simulator training programs to mimic or demonstrate piloting while affected by OTCD.