RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE U. K. IN FLIGHT INSTRUMENTS,

摘要

Developments in panel mounted (head down) flight instruments are described. The achievement of increased integration of instrument indications together with the use of a flight director indicating demanded action by the pilot by instrumental techniques which separate the functions of sensing,computation and display are discussed. Further simplification of the pilot's task by super-position of essential elements of the instrument field on the external field,using optical projection of collimated information onto a reflector plate of the windscreen (head up display),is also described. The addition to normal flight instrument indications of a pictorial topographical display of ground position and track by optical projection of micro colour transparencies of maps as a continuous automatic plotting facility is described. (Author)