An advanced electronic cockpit instrumentation system: The coordinated cockpit display

摘要

Cathode ray tube (CRT) and computer technologies have reached the stage where current flight and engine instruments can economically be replaced by computer controlled CRT displays. This provides a tremendous opportunity for flexibility to the cockpit display designer, but the use of this flexibility should stay within the realities of the flight environment. One approach to the replacement of flight instruments is described, using three separate color CRT's. Each CRT displays information pertinent to one of the three orthogonal projections of the aircraft flight situation. Three airline pilots made a preliminary assessment of this display set. Comments, rankings, and ratings show that, in general, the pilots accepted the concept of pictorial flight displays.