A pilot flying low and fast needs to know where he is at all times, the nature of the local terrain, and his actual track. The pilot needs help in identifying waypoints, threats, and targets without distraction of his attention from the safety of the aircraft and the overall demands of the mission. The ideal way to provide this information is as a continuous color map, oriented track up, with all associated information overlayed. It must also be usable by day and by night. No currently available equipment can achieve all these aims satisfactorily, other than a digital color map generator providing video to a multifunction color CRT display. Interest is now focussing on increasing the benefits that accrue from the use of the equipment in helicopter and fixed wing aircraft, in training, operationally, and as an aid to mission planning. The ease with which the digital map database can be updated and overlayed is a factor. It is as useful during mission planning as it is to the pilot in the air. How such a computer aid might be used and some of the increases in effectiveness that follow are identified.


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    Title :

    Digital Colour MAP Simplifies Ground Attack Operations


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1987


    Size :

    8 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English