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“If you are entering a brownout at 100 feet agl, all displays go to a primary flight display if your radar altimeter goes to 50 agl, certain information would vanish and the display would give you just the most critical information, such as an attitude indicator. Sensors will detect aircraft condition, and system logic will display only the most critical information needed under any given conditions. That will be a balancing act that we develop over time,” Chavez said. “It is a massive display and it is very eye-catching, but the last thing we want is for pilots to be mesmerized by it. Keeping Pilots FocusedĪnother critical challenge is keeping such a massive display from overwhelming the pilots with information or tempting them to fly with eyes only in the cockpit. That would just be streamed into the helmet and distributed across the visor as the operator wants to customize it,” he said. As on the F-35, the visor integrates with PDAS sensors on different parts of the aircraft to provide a 360-degree spherical view of the world around you. “A lot of the flight-critical information is going to be distributed across the visor screen and the windshield. But we don’t want to put something out there that is ballistically tolerant but constantly fails.”Ĭhavez sees the instrument panel, smart helmet and data projected onto the windshield as providing a triple-redundant system, able to display enough data either in concert or independently to ensure safety of flight. “A ballistic-tolerant screen is something we are looking at,” said Chavez, “like bulletproof glass on an armored car.

The V-280 team is also looking at ballistic-resistant materials for the display. You can move information off the damaged area or the display control system would be smart enough to know not to display critical information in the damaged area and would automatically move it off to the side… Beyond that we are still developing failure modes and how we want to mitigate those risks.” “With the mosaic design, you don’t lose the entire screen. “You won’t have all the toggle switches you have in today’s cockpit, but there will be back-ups that we will develop with the survivability group,” Chavez said. This survivability is particularly critical since most of the switchology aboard the aircraft will be eliminated and replaced with inputs made directly on the touchscreen.

The screen is still intact you just have a localized area where the screen is not functioning,” Chavez said. “If a round pierced the screen it might take out one or two tiles, but the rest of the screen would function around it, sort of like poking your finger through a screen door.

#V 280 valor cockpit series#

One idea on the latter is to construct the screen from a series of small mosaic displays that stitch together a larger image. While the panel is still in the concept stage, the team is focusing on developing a product that can incorporate and present an enormous amount of data and imagery to the pilots from both their own and other aircraft in logical sequence and is ballistically survivable. That kind of thing will be highly intuitive to them.” System Survivability Is Key They have grown up with iPads, pinching and swiping screens. We looked at the technology currently on the commercial market and who the pilots will be operating the aircraft in that time frame. “The aircraft would become operational during the 2025 to 2030 time frame, so we looked at trends where cockpits were heading: more touchscreen interactive capabilities. “The pilots who will be flying this aircraft are today’s eight-year-olds,” said Jeremy Chavez, project engineer on the V-280 program. Bell was able to draw on technology developed for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter, including “smart helmets” with PDAS (pilot displayed aperture systems), as well as ideas from commercial off-the-shelf technology. While the team is likely a decade away from developing a system for a flying aircraft, it already has some definite ideas about its architecture. The panel display is a collaborative effort among Bell, partner Lockheed Martin and Los Angeles-based Inhance Digital the companies have been working together on the concept for the last 18 months. The panel currently is installed in the V-280 mock-up, which will be on display in the Pentagon’s courtyard from June 2 to 4. Bell Helicopter is unveiling a single-screen instrument panel concept for its V-280 Valor next-generation military tiltrotor.