Cockpit automation concept development for the NUH-60 (STAR) aircraft

Author

Riley, Daniel D. ; Stringer, Paul G.

Author_Institution

Essex Corp., Warminster, PA, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

23-27 May 1988

Firstpage

910

Abstract

Results of a study performed to derive an automation and avionics integration design concept for the NUH-60 systems testbed for avionics research (STAR) aircraft are presented. The STAR aircraft is being developed by the US Army avionics research and development activity to provide a flight demonstrator and research vehicle for state-of-the-art cockpit technology. A goal was to determine cockpit design preferences associated with single-pilot performance of the US Army scout and utility missions. Emphasis was placed on high-workload phases of the missions during which eyes-out-of-the-cockpit and hands-on-controls performance capabilities would be most crucial. Cockpit design alternatives in the areas of communication, navigation, aircraft survivability equipment (ASE) operations, subsystem status monitoring, and aircraft performance computation and prediction were systematically derived

Keywords

aerospace control; aircraft instrumentation; helicopters; military systems; navigation; NUH-60 systems testbed; STAR aircraft; aircraft performance computation; aircraft survivability equipment; avionics; cockpit automation concept; communication; flight demonstrator; helicopter; navigation; research vehicle; single-pilot performance; state-of-the-art cockpit technology; subsystem status monitoring; Aerospace electronics; Aircraft navigation; Automatic testing; Design automation; Military aircraft; Monitoring; Performance evaluation; Research and development; System testing; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1988. NAECON 1988., Proceedings of the IEEE 1988 National

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAECON.1988.195117

Filename

195117