22nd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Harrogate, UK, 28 August - 1st September, 2000
Paper ICAS 2000-6.4.2

ELECTRONIC FLIGHT DISPLAY DEVELOPMENT SUPPORTED BY COMMERCIAL OF THE SHELF TOOLS

C. Moravszki (1), J. Rohács (1), P. Hermle (2), G. Sachs (2)
(1) Department of Aircraft and Ships, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary; (2) Institute of Flight Mechanics and Flight Control, Technische Universität München, Germany

Keywords: touchscreen, interactive instruments, vaps, development simulator, cockpit displays

At the Institute of Flight Mechanics and Flight Control of the Technische Universität München a development flight simulator has been established based on Commercial-Off-The-Shelf hardware and software elements to evolve new concepts for cockpit displays. The display design has been conducted in co-operation with the Department of Aircraft and Ships of the Technical University of Budapest. The paper describes the simulator, the applied Commercial-Off-The-Shelf tools, the head up display and the touchscreen equipped head down displays. It is shown how the basic control and command functions work and how some special functions can be implemented making use of the further opportunities of the touchscreen.

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