A short flight test program was conducted using the NASA Langley Research Center's B737 Advanced Transport Operating Systems (ATOPS) research airplane to determine if pilots could land a transport category airplane under visual meteorological conditions (VMC) by reference to a synthetic visibility system. No external guidance was to be used. The program was undertaken jointly by NASA and the McDonnel-Douglas Corporation. The airplane was fitted with forward-looking television cameras fixed in the nose. Inputs from the television cameras were mixed with internally generated symbology and displayed to the pilot on helmet-mounted eyepieces. The pilot task was to execute a visual approach and landing. Two NASA and two McDonnel-Douglas engineering test pilots participated in the program completing over 200 landings in a 32-hour test program. Landings accomplished with the helmet-mounted display (HMD) were compared with visual landings for each pilot.
Flight tests of a helmet-mounted display synthetic visibility system
1990-05-01
Conference paper
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English
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