Non-prescription Drug Training for Pilots

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案是对一个系统的直接回应，该系统“....在飞行训练和医学检查期间教育和提醒飞行员，并提供抗组胺药（和非处方药）的不良影响和相关的不希望的严重后果的真实例子。”航空医学文献中具体规定的这一要求承认，非处方药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，在典型的飞行训练项目中，OTCD对驾驶技能的影响很少受到重视。然而，有充分的证据表明，飞行员培训是最有效的，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，联邦航空管理局几年来已证明为训练目的使用各种类型的飞行模拟器。这些飞行模拟器已经被非常有效地使用，并且在为学生飞行员提供可能在实际飞行条件下尝试过于危险的经验方面特别有用。该项目旨在引导OTCD培训计划的发展，FlyFit！，它可以增强现有的飞行模拟器，并模拟在不同程度的OTCD滥用影响下飞行的后果。这将通过在飞行模拟器上使用规定的飞行协议进行一系列受控实验来完成，不使用OTCD（对照组）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！这个项目可以用来教飞行员在OTCD影响下飞行的可能影响。

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.