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5.3 The Highway-In-The-Sky Display (HITS) System
The general aviation cockpit of the future would include NASA's Highways in the Sky technology. An ergonomically designed flight situation display system that replaces the old-fashioned instrument panel is the hallmark of the NASA Advanced General Aviation Transportation Experiment (AGATE) cockpit revolution. The display system is the foundation for NASA's Highway in the Sky (HITS) initiative, which is developing affordable glass cockpits for single-engine, single-pilot airplanes by the year 2001. The HITS display will project a pre-planned course "highway" for the pilot to follow, instead of gauges and dials for the pilot to interpret and synthesize into a mental picture of the airplane situation. The graphical display system includes a two-panel display of Global Positioning System (GPS) position and attitude, course, weather depiction, and aircraft track and performance. The integrated flight display system provides the pilot with an intuitive pictorial for situational awareness, and with a system that is affordable for a wide spectrum of general aviation aircraft. The pilot will use the highway display to guide and control the airplane intuitively.
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