A Head-Down Display (HDD) designed for the NAL (National Aerospace Laboratory) Quiet Short Take-Off and Landing (QSTOL) experimental aircraft ASUKA, was evaluated using the STOL Flight Simulator. The HDD employs a shadow-mask type color cathode ray tube (CRT), and utilizes the flexibility of computer graphics. The simulator evaluation of the HDD installed on the right instrument panel of the STOL simulator cockpit is described. In the experiment, performances of the following three types of approach and landing flights were compared: (1) flights with conventional instruments (left seat); (2) HDD without the STOL flight director (right seat); and (3) HDD with the flight director (right seat). The flight records as well as pilot comments indicated performance improvement with the aid of the STOL flight director, while no significant differences were observed between flight performances with conventional instruments and with HDD without the flight director. Suggestions to improve the display format, such as to provide better lateral and directional control cues, contributed to a modified display format which is to be evaluated as the next step of the HDD development program.


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    Title :

    Flight Simulator Evaluation of a Head-Down Display


    Contributors:
    K. Tanaka (author) / H. Kawahara (author)

    Publication date :

    1987


    Size :

    19 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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