A Comparison of Three Aircraft Attitude Display Symbology Structures

Abstract

This study evaluated the attitude information conveyance of a new aircraft attitude display concept. The new symbology format, called the THETA symbology, was developed by integrating the shape of the conventional ADI and the transparency of the HUD into a single format. This research addressed whether or not there was a significant performance advantage or decrement incurred by the symbology integration. The THETA symbology, ADI, and HUD were evaluated during an attitude maintenance task and an attitude recovery task. The results of the study suggest few differences between the THETA and ADI formats while performance and training time were better with both the THETA symbology and the ADI than with the HUD format. The findings of the study lend support to the hypothesis that an attitude display formed of the integration of ADI and HUD type symbology will demonstrate a performance benefit over a pure HUD format. Display, Attitude, Symbology, Recovery task.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA275172

Entities

People

  • David W. Biers
  • Eric E. Geiselman
  • Robert K. Osgood

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Attitude Indicators
  • Classification
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Science
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Perception
  • Psychology
  • Tactical Aircraft
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Three Dimensional
  • Training

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  • Systems Analysis and Design