New electronic device for cockpit

[julia]

Hi everyone,

 

This forum has a lot of great ideas.

Let me introduce myself, my name is Julia and I am an postgrad student at NCSU management school and am working with 3 other students on an innovation project in collaboration with a big helicopter manufacturing company to develop a new electronic device to integrate to civil helicopter cockpit that will create a all new flight experience, save a lot of time for pilots and support crew in their flight activities and satisfy many other current needs expressed by pilots.

 

In order to assess whether this product would be suitable to the civil helicopter industry we need your help. Would you please be kind enough to fill in our short survey which should take less than 5 minutes. It is very quickly done and would add a lot of value to our project and to the potential innovative product that we are developing.

 

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YLBVV29

 

Thanks a lot for participating.

 

Julia

[arotrhd]

OK, I bit.

 

Julia, I responded to the survey; I think the operational description is still too vague. Please provide more specific details.

 

Also, consider all of the features that other systems (PFD/MFD/VMD...soo, so many others) have to offer, and then consider how many different operating modes the user has to figure out for each one, then multiply by the number of different systems. This device should be simple, easy on the interface and get to the desired outputs quickly. And without distracting from the basic tasks at hand, like keeping safe and completing the job.

 

It sounds like many users from various areas (pilot vs. crew vs. op control vs. ground vs. maintenance) could make this a little cumbersome. Not sure.

 

Also keep in mind that every new item installed will require training (a cost) and generates more procedures (I think the simplest addition creates a minimum of 5 new procedures).

 

Will this be considered something that is more flight critical and requires redundancy? What is the anticipated reversion mode for partial/full failure?

 

For many in the helo world, safety and utility are key, and operations reflect a great deal of simplicity to be competitive. Be prepared to embrace a lengthy and costly certification program if this becomes a realized product.

 

From my grad program survey regarding helicopter safety, I think you might benefit from having distinctive and identifiable input from the operational side vs. the management side. You may be surprised by the areas in which they have strong alignment and others in which there is strong polarity...and the reasons why. have you involved any "experts" to obtain their views regarding needs?

 

 

Good luck with this endeavor.

 

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