Abstract
A helicopter’s final approach and landing are critical phases of flight that are highly susceptible to spatial disorientation when external visual cues are degraded or absent. Current visual landing aid systems display tracking error which the pilot attempts to null in a compensatory fashion. This paper presents theoretical and preliminary empirical support for performance enhancement when providing pilots guidance preview and prediction of states, rather than just a compensatory display of the tracking error. A novel space-time format is proposed for displaying: (1) Previewed 4D guidance information; (2) Projected (predicted) state relative to the guidance preview; and (3) Current state relative to current guidance and terminal objectives. A key objective of the display is to allow the pilot to perceive and control each axis of translation as part of an integrated pattern, thus distributing attention equitably.
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This work was supported by cooperative agreement NNX13AI30A between the U.S. Army Aviation Development Directorate and San Jose State University. This paper has been approved for public release: unlimited distribution.
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Bachelder, E. (2017). Novel Helicopter Flight Director and Display. In: Nunes, I. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and System Interactions. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 497. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41956-5_31
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