Apparatus and method for aircraft display and control including head up display
AssigneeDassault Aviation
InventorsMichel Briffe, Guy Mitaux-Maurouard
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Abstract
An aircraft display and control system includes a primary flight director and a head-up display. A flight management system computer generates a current aircraft velocity vector reticle, a desired aircraft velocity reticle, a speed reticle, an acceleration reticle, and a pitch reticle. The flight management system computer conformably generates a waypoint icon in the pilot's view through the windshield superimposed upon the position in the view of the geographic location and altitude of the actual waypoint.
Claims6
A primary flight display, comprising:
- a flat-panel color display device;
- a flight director reticle displayed on the display device indicating a desired aircraft velocity vector computed by an autopilot from an operator-entered desired flight path and indicating required pitch and roll commands;
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- a flight path angle reticle displayed on the display device indicating a current aircraft velocity vector.
A primary flight display, comprising:
- a flat-panel color display device;
- a flight director reticle displayed on the display device indicating a desired aircraft velocity vector;
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- a flight path angle reticle displayed on the display on the display device indicating a current aircraft velocity vector,
- wherein the flight director reticle comprises a first reticle including a pair of quarter-circles indicating desired vertical aircraft velocity vector and a second reticle including a pair of quarter-circles indicating desired horizontal aircraft velocity vector.
A method for displaying information to an aircraft pilot, comprising the steps of:
- receiving operator-entered inputs specifying a desired flight path;
- generating first display signals representative of a desired aircraft velocity vector computed by an autopilot from the operator-entered inputs, said first display signals indicating required pitch and roll commands;
- generating second display signals representative of the current aircraft velocity vector;
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- simultaneously displaying on a flat-panel display device a flight director reticle and a flight path angle reticle respectively generated from the first and second display signals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.