Luan's research investigates the application of low-cost, commercial off-the-shelf PC gaming technology to next-generation flight training devices to provide equivalent full-scale simulation system capabilities for deployable pilot training in air combat and UAV operations.
This research is supported by a full Departmental PhD Studentship award under supervision of Prof. dr. Roy Kalawsky.
Expertise
Human Factors
Modelling and Simulation (including virtual/synthetic environments)
Systems Engineering
Virtual Reality and virtual interfaces
2010 - present: PhD Systems Engineering, Loughborough University
Advanced Virtual Reality Research Centre,
Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
2003 - 2010: MSc & BSc Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology
Control and Simulation division,
Department of Control and Operations
Thesis: The Effect of Synthetic Vision Enhancements on Landing Flare Performance
The usage of heads-down, non-conformal synthetic vision displays for landings below minimums has inherent problems during the manual flare. I designed an enhanced display with extra support cues and conducted a piloted experiment. A clear learning curve effect was observed when pilots started with the enhanced display, suggesting potential use as a training tool. My thesis report resulted in a paper presented at the AIAA Guidance, Navigation & Control conference 2010.
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2007: Intern, National Aerospace Laboratory, Amsterdam
Avionics Systems,
European Personal Air Transportation System project
Human factors, human-machine interaction, ecological interface design, aircrew training, synthetic vision systems, flight deck design, air traffic management, flight simulation
View all Le Ngoc’s publications in the central publications database
Selected Publications
L. Le Ngoc, C. Borst, M. Mulder and M. M. van Paassen, “The Effect of Synthetic Vision Enhancements on Landing Flare Performance”. AIAA-2010-8170, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 2-5, 2010.
L. Le Ngoc, “The Effect of Synthetic Vision Enhancements on Landing Flare Performance”, unpublished MSc thesis, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, April 2010.
L. Le Ngoc, “European Personal Air Transportation System (EPATS) study: Cockpit avionics & human machine interface requirements”. Technical Report NLR-Memorandum ASAS-2007-066, National Aerospace Laboratory, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 2007.
