Advanced Technology Application in the Flight Deck Design for Military Transport

The continuous growing in systems/functions installed in the modern aircraft, imposed by the more and more demanding requirements in terms of performance and safety, is leading to the development and the application of new components and systems in the area of cockpit indication and automatic controller integration. The Cathode Ray Tubes (CRT) and other multifunction display technologies are rapidly replacing many of the dials, panels and gauges of the old cockpit. Artificial intelligence and high level automation are emerging in digital avionics. These systems would take over the crew in many cockpit management functions such as reconfiguration to compensate fault or execute emergency procedures. This paper analyzes the design and certification aspects related to the adoption of these new technologies and discusses some aspects of human factor engineering which become an integral part for the cockpit design, for the simbology and for the logic integration of the function within the automatic control and display system.
This article is from 'Progress in Military Airlift: The Flight Mechanics Panel Symposium Held in Lisbon, Portugal on 28-31 May 1990 (Les Progres Realises dans le Domaine du Transport Aerien Militaire), AD-A239 471, p9-1 thru 9-8.