AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENT AND COCKPIT LIGHTING BY RED OR WHITE LIGHT.
Abstract
Contents: Cockpit lighting requirements in the RAF; Visual functions as determining factors for quality and amount of effective panel and cockpit lighting; Legibility of various sized letters under aviation red, 'lunar' white, and neutrally-filtered incandescent white lighting systems; An examination of carrier flight deck and hangar deck lighting systems; Color discrimination and chart reading under red- and low-intensity white light; Action sur la vision des differents modes d'eclairage du tableau de bord; Merits of red or white lighting for naval use; Assessment of red and white illumination for equal legibility; The effect of red and of white instrument lighting on the dark adaptation index; The effect of night cockpit luminance, red and white, on central and peripheral visual performance; Luminance measurements for red and white-lighted aircraft instruments; The effect of red versus white lighting on dark adaptation using a simulated instrument panel for preadaptation; Les problemes d'eclairage des postes de pilotage; Human factor aspects in aircraft interior lighting; White lighting of instruments in USAF aircraft; Operational evaluation of filtered and unfiltered white aircraft instrument lighting; Red light for cockpit lighting--results of an inquiry and of some investigations; Admissible white preadaptation levels compared with red preadaptation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0672072
Entities
Organizations
- AGARD