Non-prescription Drug Training for Pilots

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是对系统需求的直接响应，以“......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（和非处方药）的不良反应和相关不良后果的真实例子。“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，商业和军事）的严重（致命）飞机事故中起着重要作用。目前，典型的飞行训练项目很少关注OTCD对驾驶技能的影响。然而，有充分的证据表明，飞行员训练是最有效的，让学生飞行员实际体验飞行条件和要求，他们必须学习。此外，几年来，联邦航空管理局已经认证了用于训练目的的各种类型的飞行模拟器的使用。这些飞行模拟器的使用非常有效，特别有助于为飞行学员提供在实际飞行条件下尝试可能过于危险的经验。该项目旨在开发OTCD培训计划FlyFit！，其可以增强现有的飞行模拟器并模拟在不同程度的OTCD滥用的影响下的飞行后果。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对照实验来完成，其中没有使用OTCD（对照组）以及使用OTCD和安慰剂消耗（测试组）。与控制条件的偏差将在FlyFit！该计划可用于教导飞行员在OTCD影响下飞行的可能影响。 公共卫生相关性：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）会对健康构成重大威胁。这方面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FlyFit！，OTCD培训计划，增强现有的飞行模拟器培训计划，以模拟或演示受OTCD影响的驾驶。

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.