The Flight Development of a Colour Electronic Display Format and Monitoring System of Helicopter Engine and Transmission Data.

Abstract

A Wessex helicopter at RAE Bedford has been used to develop and evaluate an integrated avionics system which incorporated electronic displays and a flight management system for both military and civil applications. A key feature of this system was the display of engine and transmission data. This was complemented by a system monitor which provided visual and audio warnings of limit exceedences, parameter mismatches, and failures. The flight trials showed that the display of engine and transmission data could be advantageously suppressed and only shown when the pilot requested it or a monitor detected a problem. When used in combination with synthetic voice the monitoring system allowed the pilot to concentrate upon tasks more relevant to the current phase of flight. Safety and mission effectiveness were therefore enhanced. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA186200

Entities

People

  • R. Cowan
  • R. Little

Organizations

  • Royal Aircraft Establishment

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Temperature
  • Aircrafts
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Color Displays
  • Compressors
  • Computer Programming
  • Digital Maps
  • Display Systems
  • Flight
  • Helicopter Engines
  • Helicopters
  • Instrument Flight
  • Instrument Panels
  • Radar Altimeters
  • Radio Equipment
  • Recognition
  • Recording Systems

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems