Human Factors Issues In Synthetic Vision Displays: Government, Academic, Military, and Industry Perspectives

摘要

Aviation has been witness to rapid advancement in technologies that have significantly improved aviation safety. The development of attitude indicators, flight management systems, radio navigation aids, and instrument landing systems (ILS) have extended aircraft operations into weather conditions with reduced forward visibility. However, as Brooks (1997) has noted, “…while standard instrumentation has served us well, enabling aviation as we see it today, literally thousands of dead souls, victims of aviation catastrophe, offer mute and poignant testimony to its imperfections. The simple, elegant dream of soaring aloft visually, intuitively – bird-like – remain elusive” (p. 17). Using conventional displays, pilots must integrate information from many separate sources to achieve situation awareness. This integration process can lead to errors, which in some cases can have deadly consequences.