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Flight tests of advanced 3D-PFD with commercial flat-panel avionics displays and EGPWS system

2005; SPIE; Volume: 5802; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.602845

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Gang He, Thea Feyereisen, Aaron J. Gannon, Blake Wilson, John Schmitt, Sandy Wyatt, Jary Engels,

Simulation and Modeling Applications

This paper describes flight trials of Honeywell Advanced 3D Primary Flight Display System. The system employs a large-format flat-panel avionics display presently used in Honeywell PRIMUS EPIC flight-deck products and is coupled to an on-board EGPWS system. The heads-down primary flight display consists of dynamic primary-flight attitude information, flight-path and approach symbology similar to Honeywell HUD2020 heads-up displays, and a synthetic 3D perspective-view terrain environment generated with Honeywell's EGPWS terrain data. Numerous flights are conducted on-board Honeywell Citation V aircraft and significant amount of pilot feedback are collected with portion of the data summarized in this paper. The system development is aimed at leveraging several well-established avionics components (HUD, EGPWS, large-format displays) in order to produce an integrated system that significantly reduces pilot workload, increases overall situation awareness, and is more beneficial to flight operations than achievable with separated systems.