Modern head-up display (HUD) systems display flight information and guidance commands, in the form of electronic symbology and/or sensor imagery, so that they are visually coincident with the real world as seen from the cockpit. The basic virtue of head-up displays is that the pilot's visual and mental attention remains outside the cockpit in order to monitor available visual cues while viewing all critical instrument data. The HUD symbology is conformal with the real world and focused at infinity so that ocular transition between such data and the real world is eliminated. Such a system, when properly designed and employed, contributes greatly to safety, pilot confidence, reduced pilot workload, and more precise, accurate flying.This paper describes such a HUD guidance system and various approaches to the design of a pilot-in-the-active-control-loop head-up display system, HUD system architecture and aircraft sensor requirements. Additionally, general aviation applications, including possible symbology, will be addressed.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Head-Up Displays for General Aviation


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    General Aviation Aircraft Meeting and Exposition ; 1985



    Publication date :

    1985-04-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





    Electroluminescent Displays (EL) for General Aviation Cockpits

    Danner, Delyle / Jacobs, Gale | SAE Technical Papers | 1990


    Electronic Displays for Application in General Aviation

    Knueppel, A. / Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Luft- und Raumfahrt-Lilienthal-Oberth e.V. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1993