Instrumentation ergonomics

Piece of PocketPC based moving map display software. Trace of flight shows
areas of lift and sink. My first instinct was to make trace green when in
the lift and red when in the sink. Not too clever when a whole bunch of you
are red/green colourblind!

So, any suggestions on this one? How about blue and yellow? Yellow washes
out very easily on a sunlit PDA screen.

Ian

What about black: solid in lift; dotted in sink?


"tango4" wrote in message
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Piece of PocketPC based moving map display software. Trace of flight shows
areas of lift and sink. My first instinct was to make trace green when in
the lift and red when in the sink. Not too clever when a whole bunch of
you
are red/green colourblind!

So, any suggestions on this one? How about blue and yellow? Yellow washes
out very easily on a sunlit PDA screen.

Ian

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:57:30 +0200, "Simon Waddell"
wrote:

What about black: solid in lift; dotted in sink?

I was going to suggest two widths of black line, but this sounds cool.
Better yet? why not make it configurable with a choice of, say,
red/green, black solid/dotted and red/blue?


--
martin@ : Martin Gregorie
gregorie : Harlow, UK
demon :
co : Zappa fan & glider pilot
uk :

Well, Daltionians have quite some problems to get a medical in many
countries, so you might stick to green/red as well :-)

--
Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


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Piece of PocketPC based moving map display software. Trace of flight shows
areas of lift and sink. My first instinct was to make trace green when in
the lift and red when in the sink. Not too clever when a whole bunch of
you
are red/green colourblind!

So, any suggestions on this one? How about blue and yellow? Yellow washes
out very easily on a sunlit PDA screen.

Ian

For PPL maybe, not necessarily for gliding - I'm living proof as far as UK
and Switzerland is concerned.


"Bert Willing" wrote in
message ...
Well, Daltionians have quite some problems to get a medical in many
countries, so you might stick to green/red as well :-)

--
Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


"tango4" a écrit dans le message de
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Piece of PocketPC based moving map display software. Trace of flight
shows
areas of lift and sink. My first instinct was to make trace green when
in
the lift and red when in the sink. Not too clever when a whole bunch of
you
are red/green colourblind!

So, any suggestions on this one? How about blue and yellow? Yellow
washes
out very easily on a sunlit PDA screen.

Ian

As long as a bloke can tell blue from green/brown thats fine with me. He can
at least keep things the right way up in the sky!

Does this affliction really stop people from flying gliders in the 'States?

Ian



"Simon Waddell" wrote in message
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For PPL maybe, not necessarily for gliding - I'm living proof as far as UK
and Switzerland is concerned.


"Bert Willing" wrote in
message ...
Well, Daltionians have quite some problems to get a medical in many
countries, so you might stick to green/red as well :-)

--
Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


"tango4" a écrit dans le message de
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Piece of PocketPC based moving map display software. Trace of flight
shows
areas of lift and sink. My first instinct was to make trace green when
in
the lift and red when in the sink. Not too clever when a whole bunch
of
you
are red/green colourblind!

So, any suggestions on this one? How about blue and yellow? Yellow
washes
out very easily on a sunlit PDA screen.

Ian

no medical certification required to fly gliders in the "States".. you self
certify as "airworthy"

BT

"tango4" wrote in message
...
As long as a bloke can tell blue from green/brown thats fine with me. He
can
at least keep things the right way up in the sky!

Does this affliction really stop people from flying gliders in the
'States?

Ian



"Simon Waddell" wrote in message
...
For PPL maybe, not necessarily for gliding - I'm living proof as far as
UK
and Switzerland is concerned.


"Bert Willing" wrote in
message ...
Well, Daltionians have quite some problems to get a medical in many
countries, so you might stick to green/red as well :-)

--
Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


"tango4" a écrit dans le message de
...
Piece of PocketPC based moving map display software. Trace of flight
shows
areas of lift and sink. My first instinct was to make trace green
when
in
the lift and red when in the sink. Not too clever when a whole bunch
of
you
are red/green colourblind!

So, any suggestions on this one? How about blue and yellow? Yellow
washes
out very easily on a sunlit PDA screen.

Ian

Or how about a trace of pluses for up and minuses for down? No charge
for the suggestion, but I'd take a free piece of hardware for such an
intuitive suggestion. Fred

One feature I would like to see added: Voice command.
Especially useful when a task is changed when you
are already in the air. Eyeballs can stay focused
to things outside of the cockpit and the pilot just
simply (yea, right; everything is simple with computers...)
speaks to the instrument stating 'Change to Task B'
or 'New Task: turnpoints 1, 17, 31, 54' or whatever.

Maybe I can get that as standard on my LS (I mean DG)
22 when I order it in about 20 years?

Ray Lovinggood
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA
LS (DG?) 1d

It'll come a little sooner than that I think but I suspect there may be some
other interaction too. A bit like a PDA PTT otherwise the white noise in a
sailplane cockpit will continously be chewing processor power.

The other thing to consider is voice feedback. It may sound a bit silly but
you could concentrate outside the cockpit and interface to a PDA via a
joystick mounted or left hand keypad if the PDA was telling you what it was
up to.

Ian

"Ray Lovinggood" wrote in message
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One feature I would like to see added: Voice command.
Especially useful when a task is changed when you
are already in the air. Eyeballs can stay focused
to things outside of the cockpit and the pilot just
simply (yea, right; everything is simple with computers...)
speaks to the instrument stating 'Change to Task B'
or 'New Task: turnpoints 1, 17, 31, 54' or whatever.

Maybe I can get that as standard on my LS (I mean DG)
22 when I order it in about 20 years?

Ray Lovinggood
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA
LS (DG?) 1d