Wed, 27 July 2011 . Proline's New Bag Of Tricks -- Touch Them For Yourself The Pre-Oshkosh news conferences are pretty rare at AirVenture... in fact, there was only one on the schedule for this week. Rockwell Collins took the opportunity to unveil the industry's first touch-control primary flight displays for business jets and turboprop aircraft, which will be available on future applications of the company's Pro Line Fusion avionics system. "These displays demonstrate our focus on empowering pilots with natural head-up, eyes-forward interfaces," said Colin Mahoney, vice president of Sales and Marketing for Rockwell Collins. "Touch-controlled, icon-based controls on the main displays help keep pilots' attention focused up and forward for safer and more efficient flying. For example, when programming the flight management system, instead of entering information on a console-mounted keypad, pilots can redirect to a graphically displayed waypoint or destination with a single swipe of a finger." Other simple gestures directly on a map display would control panning and zoom features. Another benefit of the new displays is a streamlined learning cycle for pilots transitioning to a new aircraft type, enabled by the user-friendly, icon-based graphical user interface. Copyright 2011, Aero-News Network, Inc., ALL Rights Reserved.
Touch-Screen Functionality Comes To ProLine Avionics When flying complex airplanes in instrument or other challenging conditions, anything that makes it easier for the flight crew to concentrate on flying the airplane is a good thing. Rockwell Collins was out of the gate early at Oshkosh this summer, introducing its touch-screen interface for the Pro Line Fusion Primary Flight Display. "The theory is 'touch what you want to change'," says Rockwell Collins' Adam Evanschwartz. He says that the system is unique in the marketplace because of its HUD capability which allows pilots to increase their situational awareness while interacting with the PFD and MFD. Evan Schwartz says that pilots find the system very intuitive after about a half hour of flying. In his demonstration, a touch in the center of the PFD brings up a menu which allows the system to be divided into two parts, showing primary instruments and synthetic vision on one side of the PFD, and a GPS terrain map on the other. An icon-driven drag-and-drop interface allows pilots to change the display to show charts for primary, alternate, or enroute, and that display can also be divided into two equal parts for the display of even more granular data such as checklists. The moving map function also allows the pilot to update route of flight by "rubber banding" the course line displayed for easy vectoring around weather, or a change in waypoints or primary and alternate airports. Weather radar and other information can <b>...</b>
Rockwell Collins Rolls Out The Highest-Tech For The Bombardier Globals We're always on the lookout for new systems that will help reduce the cockpit workload, and Rockwell Collins seems to have come up with one in its latest Pro Line Fusion avionics suite. Pro Line Fusion, which provides an integrated flight deck to ensure interoperability between systems, will debut on the Bombardier Global family. Pro Line Fusion will feature high resolution 15-inch diagonal LCD displays working in concert with Head-Up Guidance Systems (HGS), graphical flight planning, synthetic and enhanced vision and Rockwell Collins' award-winning MultiScan™ Hazard Detection system. Voice recognition technology will be a future capability of the system. Rockwell Collins told ANN its Pro Line Fusion solution provides extensive situational awareness, while offering information enabled capabilities and flexible, adaptable integration. Data is displayed on 15-inch high-resolution displays. The advanced human machine interface allows for high speed display interfaces that facilitate point-and-click access to flight planning, aircraft performance monitoring and hazard avoidance. With Synthetic-Enhanced Vision on the head-down displays, Pro Line Fusion operators are equipped for situational awareness in low visibility conditions and unfamiliar territory. Synthetic-Enhanced Vision technology integrates synthetically generated scenes with real-time enhanced vision imagery allowing flight crews to operate with <b>...</b>
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