A Comparison of Military Electronic Approach Plate Formats

Autor: Liggett, Kristen K., Reising, John M., Solz, Thomas J., Hartsock, David C.
Zdroj: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting; October 1996, Vol. 40 Issue: 2 p15-19, 5p
Abstrakt: Electronic approach plate formats were compared to determine which facilitated the best pilot performance when flying precision and non-precision approaches. Four formats which varied in map orientation and color scheme were flown: monochrome north-up, monochrome track-up, color north-up, and color track-up. Although results revealed a statistically significant difference favoring the track-up orientation in the non-precision approaches, the differences were so small that they showed no practicalimpact on performance. However, when given their choice of which format to fly, pilot's overwhelmingly flew a color map format. In addition, half of the pilots flew a map orientation of north-up and half flew track-up.
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