 Advanced Display ConceptsPilots must maintain a high level of situation awareness during all phases of flight in order to aviate safely. This maintenance of situation awareness comes from two sources: the cockpit displays, and the out-the-window environment. Within the cockpit, pilots must gather information from the cockpit displays, scanning head-down displays (HDD) and viewing head-up symbology. Depending on the phase of flight and meteorological conditions, the out-the-window display must also be scanned for airborne or ground-based traffic, to identify critical runway characteristics at decision height, and to determine the absence of a runway or taxiway incursion. A serious impediment to the maintenance of situation awareness, and therefore, safety, occurs when the pilot cannot efficiently process these two information sources. This project investigates the effects of novel cockpit display formats and layouts on the ability to maintain safe levels of situational awareness.
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