Aerospace
NASA Testing 'Synthetic Vision' Cockpit Display System to Improve Aviation Safety
NASA and Boeing are working together under a new Space Act Agreement to improve flight training and aviation safety using NASA's synthetic vision technologies and Boeing's 787 simulators. Synthetic vision technologies are essentially weather-immune displays that allow pilots to see what the world looks like in perfect weather conditions all the time. It's a powerful tool that can effectively negate the visual penalties associated with even severe weather in a clear, intuitive manner. The technology offers the potential to improve aviation system safety and increase the efficiency of aircraft operations.
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00:00:02 We've done a good job of advancing the efficiency and the safety of commercial flight systems. We've created a very safe system in the air transportation system. But the airspace that we're actually living in today, you're seeing increased levels of traffic. You're seeing aircraft fly through different varieties of weather. You're just seeing all these new and complex situations that pilots are faced with, and we want to equip them with the greatest intelligent flight system available. One example of that is actually synthetic vision systems. What we mean by that is a virtual representation of what the world looks like outside the windows even though weather is a problem and you have
00:00:43 really dense fog, for example, and you cannot see outside the window of the aircraft. You can actually use these synthetic vision systems just as... it's clear as day. So the idea is that we've developed a technology that allows us to be 'weather independent,' and so we can actually just look at the display and not have to worry about what the weather is outside the aircraft. The case of synthetic vision systems, airlines are taking technology that NASA's developed, putting it onboard their flight decks of today, and using that to improve the safety and even the efficiency which has an economic impact of flight operations in today's airspace.