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Improved Head-Up Display
The advanced night vision imaging system improved head-up display (ANVIS IHUD) enables the pilot, copilot, and other flight crew to visually observe aircraft flight data while maintaining exterior situational awareness. Fully compliant with U.S. military night airborne operational requirements, the primary mission of IHUD is to mitigate risk associated with night-aided flight, and assist in the operational success and survivability of aircrew and craft. IHUD improvements have been implemented based on operational user feedback on deficiencies of existing systems.
The IHUD mitigates risk of night-aided flight by electro-optically inserting flight data graphics within the aviator’s night vision imaging system field-of-view. Superimposing flight data onto the night scene improves the aircrew's overall situational awareness and enhances coordination, allowing the aircrew to freely concentrate on the environment outside of the aircraft.
Form, fit, and function interchangeable with the current BAE Systems AN/AVS-7 NVG/HUD, the IHUD system is modularly adaptable to backward-fit and forward-fit applications. Compared to the legacy NVG/HUD, the IHUD is smaller, lighter weight, lower power, less expensive, and more reliable with a higher system performance.
The IHUD system can be controlled via the aircraft avionics management system or an optional dedicated cockpit control unit. Controls consist of all the features necessary to independently select displays prior to and during flight, to control symbology position and intensity, to provide symbology selection by operator, and to initiate the built-in-test function. Selection functions can also be allocated to the cyclic or collective grips.
IHUD FEATURES
The IHUD’s advanced symbol generator converts aircraft avionics data into real-time display graphics with an advanced, PowerPC-based processor that includes embedded dual fast ethernet 100BaseT architecture for negligible latency flight symbology and video (for example, forward looking infrared imagery). Future growth options, with minimal impact to existing hardware, include color symbology, DayHUD/Visor, helmet tracking system, MonoHUD, and flight data recorder.
The IHUD system accommodates a variety of display units to insert flight data into the optical channel: legacy CRT, flat panel display unit, flat panel display unit-eyepiece, DayHUD, and panoramic night vision goggles. The display unit is equipped with a quick disconnect connector that provides safe egress for aircrew members. The direct-drive, all-digital flat panel displays feature a small diameter, flexible electrical cable that improves peripheral vision, thereby enhancing situational awareness and reducing pilot distraction from large-diameter, stiff high-voltage cables needed by CRT displays.
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