Effects of Head Up Display Symbology Lag on Recovery from Inadvertent Instrument Meteorological Conditions: Performance Costs

Abstract

The past three decades of technological advances in U.S. Army aviation have provided the capability to fly nap-of-the-earth (NOE) missions at night. The technology that has enabled Army pilots to gain this operational advantage is the head-mounted illumination intensification device called the Night Vision Goggle (NVG) (Collins and Piccione, 1998). Further workload reduction efforts have led to the production of a head up display (HUD) for the Aviator's Night Vision knaging System (ANVIS), a current version of the NVG. This device superimposes flight symbology on one tube of the ANVIS so that no head movement is required to obtain flight information. It is believed that this addition has helped decrease aviator workload during flight. However, past research has shown that some aviators actually experience more severe episodes of spatial disorientation while using the HUD (Durnford et al., 1995).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA452173

Entities

People

  • Arthur Estrada
  • Joanna Greig
  • Patricia Leduc
  • Shannen Dumond
  • Siobhan Gallagher

Organizations

  • United States Army Aeromedical Research Lab

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aircrafts
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
  • Descriptive Analytics
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Flight Simulators
  • Frequency
  • Helicopters
  • Helmet Mounted Displays
  • Night Vision
  • Recovery
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Simulators
  • Virtual Reality
  • Workload

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Economics
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).