A combination of electronic and mechanical integrated elements which operate together are used to produce realistic environmental conditions that would actually be encountered by a pilot flying an aircraft. The electronic elements of the system include a real time digital computer, a calligraphic color display which simulates landing lights of selective intensity, and a color television camera for producing a moving color display of the airport runway as depicted on a model terrain board. The mechanical simulation elements of the system include an environmental chamber which can produce natural fog, nonhomogeneous fog, rain and fog combined, or rain only. A pilot looking through the aircraft windscreen will look through the fog and/or rain generated in the environmental chamber on to a viewing screen with the simulated color image of the airport runway, and observe a very real simulation of actual conditions of a runway as it would appear through actual fog and/or rain.


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    Title :

    Environmental Fog/Rain Visual Display System for Aircraft Simulators


    Contributors:
    W. D. Chase (author)

    Publication date :

    1979


    Size :

    62 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English








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