ELECTRONIC MASTER MONITOR AND ADVISORY DISPLAY SYSTEM

The development of non-mission-related status information is one area of rotary wing instrumentation which has not kept pace with the state-of-the-art. This includes raw data, discrete and summary status information related to the engine, transmission, rotor, fuel, hydraulic and electrical subsystems. General Electric Company, under contract to the US Army, is presently developing an Electronic Master Monitor and Advisory Display System (EMMADS), which will integrate and display this "secondary" information on a single solid-state electroluminescent panel. Human Engineering effort in support of this development has assessed the information requirements, developed and tested information handling formats, and determined the necessary display/control design criteria.