Development of Pilot Display for Parabolic Flight Experiment

Parabolic flight has been used to simulate micro-gravity environment in the atmosphere. For creating high quality micro-gravity condition, both precise maneuver and timely thrust control are required, while maintaining the aircraft within the allowable flight envelope and other limitations. Sometimes, not only the monitoring but also aircraft control tasks are shared between more than one flight crew to achieve the quality and safety requirement. A display system was invented to guide the flight crews to achieve micro-gravity environment. Predictive symbologies and automatic aural alert functions were incorporated to ease the flight crews' workload and to enhance the flight safety. The display system was used in the flight experiment and demonstrated moderate level of quality.