The next step toward enhanced situational awareness

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