Conference proceeding
Human Factors Considerations of Aircraft Displays
SAE Technical Paper Series
Advances In Aviation Safety Conference & Exposition
04/06/1998
DOI: 10.4271/981237
Abstract
In current general aviation aircraft it is not uncommon to find very old designs of electromechanical instruments next to state of the art pixel-based displays. A number of these instruments appear to be inadequate from a legibility, interpretability, and operational point of view. This paper contains a review of the relevant display reading performance literature. The key principles (luminance contrast and critical detail) of display legibility are demonstrated using a general aviation altimeter as an example. A particular safety concern is the legibility of the pressure display found on typical altimeter instruments.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Human Factors Considerations of Aircraft Displays
- Creators
- Charles P WentzThomas Schnell - Ohio UniversityHelmut T Zwahlen - Ohio University
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Conference
- Advances In Aviation Safety Conference & Exposition
- Series
- SAE Technical Paper Series
- DOI
- 10.4271/981237
- ISSN
- 0148-7191
- eISSN
- 2688-3627
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/06/1998
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Industrial and Systems Engineering; Neurology; Occupational and Environmental Health; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984186977702771
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