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May 13, 2008
Still in CT
I'm sitting here again with my feet up in my hotel room debugging code. So far things are working out OK. I get to the the plant at around 7:30, get things all set up for the day's run, the pilot arrives around 8, then the introductions and ground school begins. I don't have any part of this, so I input the data from the previous day, check my email, surf the web until lunch. We have sandwiches (the same kind every day), chips, an eclectic assortment of sodas, and cookies.
Then I finally get to swing into action. I get to put the EEG cap, gel and electrodes on the pilot. Then I adjust the eye tracker and calibrate it. Then I sit in the back and push the start/stop data logging button. Yep, my life is exciting! The reality is pretty repetitive and boring, but the fact that I get to spend my days in a flight simulator collecting data -- that is cool. I'm even excited about the data analysis, boy I am a nerd.
The only frustration is that we are one pilot shy of getting enough data for the full design of experiments. We manage to finish usually by around 2pm every day, plenty of time to run a second subject. If only we could get a second pilot in on one day. If only we could use the simulator for two extra hours one day. All of these things seem rather small, surmountable problems. But no, it is not to be.
I'm here one more day, then it is back to MN with me for a weekend of marathon debugging.
Posted by kfeigh at May 13, 2008 08:07 PM