FMS flight plans in synthetic vision primary flight displays

Gang He; Thea Feyereisen; Sandy Wyatt

doi:10.1117/12.817524

6 May 2009 FMS flight plans in synthetic vision primary flight displays

Gang He, Thea Feyereisen, Sandy Wyatt

Proceedings Volume 7328, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 2009; 73280B (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.817524
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2009, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

This paper describes display concepts and flight tests evaluations of flight management system (FMS) flight plan integration into Honeywell's synthetic vision (SV) integrated primary flight display systems (IPFD). The prototype IPFD displays consist of primary flight symbology overlay with flight path information and flight director guidance cues on the SV external 3D background scenes. The IPFD conformal perspective-view background displays include terrain and obstacle scenes generated with Honeywell's enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) databases, runway displays generated with commercial FMS databases, and 3D flight plan information coming directly from on-board FMS systems. The flight plan display concepts include 3D waypoint representations with altitude constraints, terrain tracing curves and vectors based on airframe performances, and required navigation performance (RNP) data. The considerations for providing flight crews with intuitive views of complex approach procedures with minimal display clutter are discussed. The flight test data on-board Honeywell Citation Sovereign aircraft and pilot feedback are summarized with the emphasis on the test results involving approaches into terrainchallenged air fields with complex FMS approach procedures.

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Gang He, Thea Feyereisen, and Sandy Wyatt "FMS flight plans in synthetic vision primary flight displays", Proc. SPIE 7328, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 2009, 73280B (6 May 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.817524

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