Basic Study for Early Feasibility Evaluation Methodology about Novel Instrument Layout Design of Civil Aircraft

Abstract

This paper proposes the evaluation methodology in early design phase for the feasibility of novel instrument layout to be applied for the next generation civil aircraft, based on the MIL-HDBK-46855A human engineering guideline that shows pilot evaluation and analysis method for military system. Airline pilots evaluation on mockup with this method facilitates to identify the critical design issue and its potential resolutions from visibility, its trajectory and crew coordination point of view and mitigate the risk for late finding of issue to avoid redesign in later design phase. The effectiveness of the evaluation method is potentially shown by the trial usage on the conventional instrument layout, and the achieved data can be used for a reference to compare it with the novel instrument layout design.