Night Lighting and Night Vision Goggle Compatibility
Abstract
Proper lighting of aircraft instruments, panels, controls, indicators, and displays is essential in high performance aircraft. The lighting must be useable over a large range of ambient conditions; especially during dawn or dusk transitions and at night. It must be uniform, have low glare, and be continuously dimmable to very low luminance levels, so the pilot can become partially dark adapted for good, out-of-the-cockpit vision. Various aspects of cockpit lighting such as intensity levels, contrast, luminance and color uniformity, red versus white versus blue-green general lighting requirements will be noted throughout the paper because they are an important part of the overall design of the lighting system. A special area or interest is night vision goggles (NVGs) are being viewed. Methods of achieving night vision goggle compatibility in the cockpit using filtered incandescent lamps, external bezels, floodlighting, light-emitting diodes, electroluminescent lamps, microlouver material, and black flight suits are described.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADP005790
Entities
People
- Alan R. Pinkus
Organizations
- Armstrong Laboratory