✦ LIBER ✦
Pilot workload in the aircraft of the future : Journal of Navigation, May 1979, 32.2, 243–258.
✍ Scribed by D. Caraux; J.C. Wanner
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 150 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-6870
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✦ Synopsis
The pilot's eye-scan path and fixation point recordings during actual helicopter flight provided an accurate measure of the visual workload imposed by a particular panel design. Initial work was done in the UH-1 helicopter using experienced instrumentrated pilots flying actual manoeuvres on instruments. The knowledge gained from these data was used to design a helicopter instrument panel in which the most referred to instruments were placed so that the eye-scan paths were minimised. This design considerably lessens the pilot's visual workload, cuts fatigue and allows him more time for other tasks.