Publisher's Synopsis
NASA Langley Research Center has actively pursued the development and the use of pictorial or three-dimensional perspective displays of tunnel-, pathway- or highway-in-the-sky concepts for presenting flight path information to pilots in all aircraft categories (e.g., transports, General Aviation, rotorcraft) since the late 1970s. Prominent among these efforts has been the development of the crow s foot tunnel concept. The crow's foot tunnel concept emerged as the consensus pathway concept from a series of interactive workshops that brought together government and industry display designers, test pilots, and airline pilots to iteratively design, debate, and fly various pathway concepts. Over years of use in many simulation and flight test activities at NASA and elsewhere, modifications have refined and adapted the tunnel concept for different applications and aircraft categories (i.e., conventional transports, High Speed Civil Transport, General Aviation). A description of those refinements follows the definition of the original tunnel concept.Parrish, Russell V. and Williams, Steven P. and Arthur, Jarvis J., III and Kramer, Lynda J. and Bailey, Randall E. and Prinzel, Lawrence J., III and Norman, R. MichaelLangley Research CenterGENERAL AVIATION AIRCRAFT; CIVIL AVIATION; ROTARY WING AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT PATHS; RECTANGULAR WIND TUNNELS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE; AIRLINE OPERATIONS; INSTRUMENT FLIGHT RULES; FLIGHT TESTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL MODELS; FLIGHT SIMULATION; ENHANCED VISION...
