A Cockpit Display Designed to Enable Limited Flight Deck Separation Responsibility

Abstract

Cockpit displays need to be substantially improved to serve the goals of situational awareness, conflict detection, and path replanning, in Free Flight. This paper describes the design of such an advanced cockpit display, along with an initial simulation based usability evaluation. Flight crews were particularly enthusiastic about color coding for relative altitude, dynamically pulsing predictors, and the use of 3-D flight plans for alerting and situational awareness.

Authors

• Johnson, Walter W. NASA Ames Research Center
• Battiste, Vernol NASA Ames Research Center
• Bochow, Sheila Holland San Jose State Univ.