NASA's Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) Project is striving to eliminate poor visibility as a causal factor in aircraft accidents as well as enhance operational capabilities of all aircraft through the display of computer generated imagery derived from an onboard database of terrain, obstacle, and airport information. To achieve these objectives, NASA 757 flight test research was conducted at the Eagle-Vail, Colorado airport to evaluate three SVS display types (Head-up Display, Head-Down Size A, Head-Down Size X) and two terrain texture methods (photo-realistic, generic) in comparison to the simulated Baseline Boeing-757 Electronic Attitude Direction Indicator and Navigation/Terrain Awareness and Warning System displays. The results of the experiment showed significantly improved situation awareness, performance, and workload for SVS concepts compared to the Baseline displays and confirmed the retrofit capability of the Head-Up Display and Size A SVS concepts. The research also demonstrated that the tunnel guidance display concept used within the SVS concepts achieved required navigation performance (RNP) criteria.
Flight Test Evaluation of Synthetic Vision Concepts at a Terrain Challenged Airport
2004
110 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation Safety , Aeronautics , Avionics , Human Factors Engineering , Pattern Recognition & Image Processing , Air Transportation , Airports , Enhanced vision , Flight tests , Terrain , Flight control , Display devices , Nasa programs , Global positioning system , Head-up displays , Aircraft accidents , Computer graphics , Boeing 757 aircraft , Navigation aids , Runways , Data bases
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