Over the past 18 months the Army has been developing a terrain following capability in it's next generation special operations aircraft (SOA), the MH-60K and the MH-47E. As two experimental test pilots assigned to the Army's Airworthiness Qualification Test Directorate of the US Army Aviation Technical Test Center, we would like to convey the role that human factors has played in the development of the MMR for terrain following operations in the SOA. In the MH-60K, the pilot remains the interface between the aircraft, via the flight controls and the processed radar data, and the flight director cues. The presentation of the processed radar data to the pilot significantly affects the overall system performance, and is directly driven by the way humans see, process, and react to stimuli. Our development has been centered around the optimization of this man-machine interface.


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    Title :

    Optimization of the terrain following radar flight cues in special operations aircraft


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Helmet- and Head-Mounted Displays and Symbology Design Requirements II ; 1995 ; Orlando,FL,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1995-05-22





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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