Control of diverse types of crew interface for flight control

A controller for controlling respective outputs of diverse types of crew interfaces for outputting visible, audio and tactile information to a human pilot for flight control, the controller having a processing circuit and a memory circuit, the memory circuit having instructions executable by the processing circuit, wherein said processing circuit when executing the instructions is configured to:

• receive flight status information from multiple different sources;
• determine a unified estimation of current aircraft state, based on at least the flight status information from the multiple different sources;
• determine a unified estimation of a current phase of flight, based on at least the flight status information from the multiple different sources;
• generate respective coordinated visible, audio and tactile presentations for the diverse types of crew interfaces, coordinated so that they provide mutually consistent indications of the unified estimation of the current aircraft state, according to the unified estimation of the flight phase;
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• cause the respective coordinated presentations to be output by the diverse types of crew interfaces thereby allowing for consumption of the respective coordinated presentations by the human pilot.

A computer program product including one or more non-transitory machine-readable mediums encoded with instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause a process to be carried out for controlling respective outputs of diverse types of crew interfaces for outputting visible, audio and tactile information to a human pilot for flight control of an aircraft, the process comprising:

• receiving flight status information from multiple different sources;
• determining unified estimations of a current aircraft state and of a current phase of flight, based on at least the flight status information from the multiple different sources;
• generating respective coordinated visible, audio and tactile presentations for the diverse types of crew interfaces, coordinated so that they provide mutually consistent indications of the unified estimation of the current aircraft state, according to the unified estimation of the current phase of flight;
• and
• causing the respective coordinated presentations to be output by the diverse types of crew interfaces thereby allowing for consumption of the respective coordinated presentations by the human pilot.