Pilot Interactions with an Electronic Display Suite to support Low-visibility Taxi

This paper focuses on how pilot interaction with a cockpit display suite improves ground taxi performance in low visibility. The display suite consists of a perspective moving map display, showing the real-time location of the ownship on the airport surface, and a “pathway-on-the-ground” form of head-up display (HUD). Performance benefits of both displays were assessed in a single-pilot medium-fidelity simulation and in a two-crew high-fidelity simulation. In both simulations, taxi performance was improved by the moving map display, and improved even further by the moving map/HUD combination. New analyses are reported that further clarify the source of the separate and combined effects of the moving map and the HUD.