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Aircraft Automation in the Future
Published in Charles E. Billings, Aviation Automation: The Search for A Human-Centered Approach, 2018
Other innovations now under development include synthetic vision systems designed to provide pilots with an adequate view of the runway and airport environment during conditions of extremely poor visibility. Finally, there is a set of innovations under consideration or early development whose future use is uncertain. Among them are very-large-screen integrated displays incorporating synthetic or enhanced views of the aircraft surround and also information concerning aircraft state and status. These devices are sometimes referred to as big picture displays; originally considered for military aircraft, they are also under serious consideration for future civil aircraft in which outside visibility will be limited, notably a future supersonic (Mach 2+) civil transport without a forward view from the cockpit (discussed later).
Commercial Aircraft
Published in Scott Jackson, Systems Engineering for Commercial Aircraft, 2020
Synthetic vision enables pilots to use visual imagery and guidance cues to penetrate weather and compensate for low levels of illumination. These subsystems would use satellite-based navigation, imaging sensors, and high-resolution displays to operate with a greater degree of autonomy.
Use of Highways in the Sky and a virtual pad for landing Head Up Display symbology to enable improved helicopter pilots situation awareness and workload in degraded visual conditions
Published in Ergonomics, 2019
Neville A. Stanton, Katherine L. Plant, Aaron P. Roberts, Craig K. Allison
Despite the operational limitations of rotary-wing craft, demand for their use, both within military and civilian operations, is ever increasing, with such craft potentially forming a cornerstone in the integrated transport systems of the future (Stanton et al. 2016). Future technology could play a key role in overcoming the limitations of current rotary-wing operational windows (Andre et al. 1991). One technology that has seen considerable development is the use of synthetic vision systems (Prinzel et al. 2004). Synthetic vision systems can enable flights in degraded visual conditions without the pilot needing a direct view of their external environment (Foyle, Kaiser, and Johnson 1992). One way of presenting synthetic vision information to pilots is via the use of a Head Up Display (HUD). A HUD, as used with rotary-wing setting, is a glass mounted panel in the pilots forward visual field displaying flight information, most commonly 2D traditional flight references (e.g. airspeed) and may potentially present a 3D (conformal) graphical representation of the external environment (Prinzel et al. 2004; Swail and Jennings 1999; Thomas and Wickens 2004). HUDs can allow a pilot to fly eyes out without the need to transfer their gaze to instruments in the cockpit (Stanton et al. 2016), enhancing their understanding of the current environment and subsequent levels of situation awareness as well as optimising workload (Fadden, Ververs, and Wickens 1998; Snow and French 2002; Snow and Reising 1999).