A simulator study to determine the effect on pilot performance of electronically represented altitude and airspeed information on the primary flight display using moving tape formats is presented. The study used a seemingly random, unpredictable guidance task and focused on three areas relating to the representation of information on moving tape formats: tape centering, trend information, and tape orientation. Results suggest that moving tape displays with actual values centered is better than tapes with reference values centered and that high-to-low airspeed tape orientation is better than low-to-high orientation. With trend information absent, subjects devoted 50 percent more attention to the secondary task relative to display configurations with trend presented.
Subjective, physiological, and performance measures of eight primary flight displays
International Symposium on Aviation Psychology ; 1987 ; Columbus, OH, United States
1987-01-01
Conference paper
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English
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