Flight Display Dynamics Revisited

Abstract

Good old ideas for pictorial flight displays that were once impractical warrant reconsideration in light of current microcomputing and display technology. Among the ideas are the contact analog, highway in the sky, and flight path predictor concepts. Basic pictorial display principles established in the 1950s and 1960s have been supported by additional experimental findings in the 1970s. These include pictorial realism, magnification, integration, compatible motion, frequency separation, pursuit presentation, quickening, and predicting. An extended analysis of dynamic display variables provides a broadened conceptual foundation for future multifactor experimental optimization of forward-looking pictorial flight displays.

Designing for Situation Awareness - Aviation Perspective

“…Examples are studies that stress the importance of proper illumination, readability, and the use of colors and symbols, and later studies that have led to the 'laws' of integrated, configural or object displays, emergent features and the "principle of the moving part" (Johnson and Roscoe, 1972;Roscoe et al, 1981). These design principles are valid and improve access to data, the transfer of information from sensors to humans.…”

Design of an airborne three-dimensional separation assistance display

“…For sake of clarity of the presented affordance cues, the line of sight of the projection is aligned with the current aircraft groundtrack, but is stationary with respect to roll and pitch angles of the aircraft, keeping vertical angle offset θ 0 fixed. This results in an earth-referenced, 'outside-in' representation of the surroundings, as opposed to the more classical inside-out presentation employed in the current Primary Flight Display (PFD), and the SVD [56]. In the current concept, this projection method will be employed to project two affordance cues onto a widescreen display that presents the airspace affordances in an FPAtrack angle action space.…”

Human performance-based measurement system

“…The target region, target size, lag of cursor and the allowable offset can be modified to create varying levels of the difficulty. Tracking tasks have been found to be useful in studying Parkinson's Disease (P. Soliveri, et al, 1997), and flight simulation (Roscoe, et al, 1981).…”