Vertical Display Message Icons for Aircraft
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern aircraft messaging systems require pilots to navigate through multiple screens to select and send messages, which is inefficient and distracting, necessitating a more efficient human interface for message selection and transmission.
Innovation Solution
A method that involves obtaining data to generate proposed messages based on current and future travel conditions, rendering icons on a vertical display with axes for altitude and time or distance, allowing for selection, review, editing, and sending of messages, thereby reducing the number of actions needed by the operator.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If pilots navigate through multiple screens to select and send messages using traditional messaging systems, then messages can be transmitted, but operator distraction increases and safety decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-generates proposed messages based on current and future travel conditions before the pilot needs to send them. These pre-generated messages are then displayed as selectable icons on the vertical display, allowing pilots to quickly review and send messages without navigating through multiple screens or composing messages manually, thereby reducing distraction while maintaining safety
Solution Approach 2:
The messaging system automatically generates proposed messages based on travel conditions without requiring pilot intervention for message composition. The system serves itself by detecting travel conditions and creating appropriate messages, which are then presented to the pilot for simple selection and sending, reducing the cognitive load and distraction for the operator
2Productivity
If pilots navigate through multiple screens to select message types, then messages can be sent, but time is lost and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
Messages are pre-generated and prepared based on travel conditions before the pilot needs to send them. The vertical display shows these messages as icons that can be quickly selected, eliminating the time-consuming process of navigating through multiple screens to compose and select message types, thereby improving efficiency and reducing time loss
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from a traditional horizontal multi-screen navigation interface to a vertical single-display interface with message icons arranged vertically. This dimensional change allows pilots to access and send messages more quickly by scrolling through a compact vertical arrangement rather than navigating through multiple horizontal screens, improving message sending efficiency while reducing time loss
Data Source
AI summary
In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method comprises: obtaining data; generating complete travel plan; determining at least one of: one or more current travel conditions and one or more future travel conditions; automatically generating at least one proposed message based upon the at least one of one or more current travel conditions and one or more future travel conditions; rendering one icon, for each of the at least one proposed message, on a grid having a first axis specifying altitude and a second axis specifying one of distance and time; and wherein each of the at least one proposed message is configured to be at least one of selectable, reviewable, printable, editable, and sendable.