A Single Interactive Display Concept for Commercial and Business Jet Cockpits

This paper presents a cockpit display concept that proposes to make use of rearprojection technology to generate a single, seamless end-to-end display on the aircraft’s main instrument panel, extending to the front of the central pedestal in its central section. In this way, a greater percentage of the area than that currently utilized on state-of-the-art aircraft can be employed productively for human machine interaction. Although this paper focuses on commercial and business jet aircraft, the concept could be adapted to other platforms such as military aircraft or helicopters. It eliminates the limitation of functional compartmentalization introduced by the physical limitations of the individual displays and employs multi-touch capability over the whole display surface, thus affording the pilots with enhanced display and input functionality, which may then form the basis of new cockpit HMI concepts. The paper also discusses a simple concept of use to illustrate the salient capabilities of the single interactive display concept.