Installation, Validation, and Flight Evaluation of the Federal Aviation Administration's Head-Up Display System.

Abstract

This report documents selected activities and results associated with the installation, validation, and flight evaluation of an FAA-owned Head-Up Display (HUD) research system as installed in a Boeing 727-100 FAA aircraft. Requisite installation, boresight, and flight validation activities, along with results obtained from a combined flight experience/flight evaluation exercise employing government pilots are presented. Pilot comments addressing HUD system performance, display symbology, control low responses, hardware implementation, and operational modes are addressed. The HUD, a one-of-a-kind flightpath oriented research HUD, was evaluated in both an inertial (INS) referenced mode and an airmass (AM) referenced mode. Overwhelmingly, there was a strong preference for the INS referenced HUD mode. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA138699

Entities

People

  • A. T. Brazer
  • B. C. Scott
  • C. O. Masters
  • J. J. Ryan
  • R. S. Bray

Organizations

  • Federal Aviation Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Color Television
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Flight Simulators
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Jet Aircraft
  • Jet Transport Aircraft
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Recording Systems
  • Short Takeoff Aircraft
  • Transport Aircraft

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.