Minimizing Coriolis-Tumbling Intensity in a Centrifuge-Based-Flight Simulator

A system for operating a centrifuge-based-flight simulator, comprising:

• one or more processors, and computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the one or more processors collectively forming a controller, the controller operable in one of:
• a first state in which the controller instructs the simulator to upload G-forces on a trainee to a first-G-force value during a first duration when the trainee performs a simulated-flight condition in the simulator representing an increased-G-force flight event in an actual aircraft, wherein the first G-force value is substantially greater than a nominal-G force state experienced by a trainee when performing a non-G-force-flight event in the simulator;
• and
• a second state in which the controller instructs the simulator to (i) transition from the first state to at a second state in which G-forces are unloaded on the trainee approaching a nominal-G force value when the trainee performs a simulated flight condition in the simulator representing a transition from an increased-G-force flight event toward a nominal-G-force flight event in an actual aircraft, and (ii) impart and maintain an intermediate-G-force value, in lieu of the nominal-G force value, on the trainee for a second duration before transitioning to the nominal-G-force value, wherein the intermediate-G-Force value is less than the first-G-force value and more than the nominal-G force value.

Computer-readable media comprising a plurality of programming instructions that, upon execution by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to instruct a centrifuge-based-flight simulator to

• (a) transition the rate of rotation in which G-forces are unloaded on a trainee in the simulator from a first G-force value toward a nominal-G-force value during a first duration;
• (b) determine an intermediate-G-force value based on at least one of (i) the angle of rotation of a gondola of the simulator and (ii) the first G-force value during the first duration, wherein the intermediate-G-force value is more than a nominal-G-force value and less than the first-G-force value;
• and
• (c) impart and maintain the intermediate-G-force value on the trainee for a second duration before further unloading G-forces on the trainee while transitioning from the first G-force value toward the nominal-G-force value.