![]() ![]() The simulator implements these with software programs, emulating the aircraft instruments and driving high-resolution LCD displays. The 777 is a "glass cockpit" aircraft, meaning that the instruments: Primary Flight Display (PFD), Navigation Display (ND), Engine Indication and Crew Alerting System (EICAS) and Control Display Units (CDU), are electronic. The advanced features of the FDDRL displays, that allow, for example, graphical manipulation of the flight plan, are tightly coupled to the FMS, providing a test bed for experimentation and evaluation of the pilot-oriented components of next-generation air traffic management concepts and technologies. Utilizing MACS allows the 777 simulator to be seamlessly integrated into the same simulated environment as the other FDDRL desktop pilot and controller stations. The flight state and control inputs are passed between MACS and the simulator via a shared memory area, and distributed to the simulator components over a high-speed local area network. The flight model and flight management system (FMS) for the simulator are provided by the Ames Multi-Aircraft Control System (MACS) system. ![]() ![]() It provides a configurable platform to host FDDRL-developed technologies, such as the Cockpit Situation Display (CSD) and synthetic speech with spatialized audio alerting. The medium fidelity simulator provides a low-cost, realistic cockpit environment for a crew of two. An advanced tool of the Flight Deck Display Research Laboratory (FDDRL) is the fixed-base Boeing 777 cockpit simulator. ![]()
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