Effects of in-flight field-of-view restriction on rotorcraft pilot head movement

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3058, Issue , 1997, Pages 34-45

  Kasper, Eugene F ^a   Haworth, Loran A ^a   Szoboszlay, Zoltan P ^a   King, Robert D ^b   Halmos, Zsolt L ^c  

^a US Army AMRDEC Development   (United States)

^b Aeronautical and Maritime Research Laboratory   (United States)

^c Raytheon Aerospace Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Field of view; Helicopters; Helmet mounted displays; Night vision devices; Pilot performance; Pilot workload; Visionic systems

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT SEATS; AVIATORS; HELICOPTERS; IMAGE SENSORS; NASA; TESTING; TRANSPORTATION PERSONNEL; VISION;

FIELD-OF-VIEW; NIGHT-VISION DEVICES; PILOT PERFORMANCE; PILOT WORKLOAD; VISIONIC SYSTEMS;

HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS;

EID: 0003182259     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.276658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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12. ibid., Figure 24.