The next step toward enhanced situational awareness

Author

Ulbrich, Eru

Author_Institution

McDonnell Douglas Corp., Long Beach, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

26-30 Oct 1997

Firstpage

3.1

Abstract

This paper describes the author´s view of the next step in aircraft cockpit situational awareness. In this concept, all of the existing and planned products of avionics research are integrated into a coherent set of visual displays and aural signals for use by the pilots. This results in a set of 64 display formats addressed by 8×8 Bezel buttons and 6 aural formats automatically addressed by the urgency of the situation. Some of the formats are in pseudo-3D. The aural signals include spatial content. Early examples will be shown of the integration and the formats. Data for this paper has come from Allied/Signal, Collins, Honeywell, NASA, FAA, and McDonnell Douglas

Keywords

airborne radar; aircraft displays; avionics; meteorological radar; military avionics; Allied/Signal; Bezel buttons; Collins; FAA; Honeywell; McDonnell Douglas; NASA; aircraft cockpit; aural formats; aural signals; avionics research; collision avoidance; enhanced situational awareness; fire detection; ice detection; multimode receivers; precipitation; pseudo-3D; surveillance; windshear; Aerospace electronics; Aircraft propulsion; Displays; Doppler radar; FAA; Meteorological radar; Millimeter wave radar; NASA; Satellite broadcasting; Videos;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1997. 16th DASC., AIAA/IEEE

Conference_Location

Irvine, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4150-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.1997.635041

Filename

635041