Proper lighting of aircraft instruments, panels, controls, indicators, and displays is essential in high performance aircraft. The lighting must be useable over a large range of ambient conditions; especially during dawn or dusk transitions and at night. It must be uniform, have low glare, and be continuously dimmable to very low luminance levels, so the pilot can become partially dark adapted for good, out-of-the-cockpit vision. Various aspects of cockpit lighting such as intensity levels, contrast, luminance and color uniformity are discussed. Red versus white versus blue-green general lighting requirements will be noted throughout the paper because they are an important part of the overall design of the lighting system. A special area of interest is night vision goggles. Methods of achieving night vision goggle compatibility in the cockpit using filtered incandescent lamps, external bezels, floodlighting, light-emitting diodes, electroluminescent lamps, microlouver material, and black flight suits are described.
Night Lighting and Night Vision Goggle Compatibility
1988
17 pages
Report
No indication
English
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