The next step toward enhanced situational awareness

Abstract

This paper describes the author's view of the next step in aircraft cockpit situational awareness. In this concept, all of the existing and planned products of avionics research are integrated into a coherent set of visual displays and aural signals for use by the pilots. This results in a set of 64 display formats addressed by 8 x 8 Bezel buttons and 6 aural formats automatically addressed by the urgency of the situation. Some of the formats are in pseudo-3D. The aural signals include spatial content. Early examples will be shown of the integration and the formats. Data for this paper has come from AlliedSignal, Collins, Honeywell, NASA, FAA, and McDonnell Douglas