• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.58-63
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• 2009

The objective of this study is to analyze customer needs for the configuration of an aircraft cockpit layout of a single piston propeller aircraft. From the result of survey, we figure out the demand of the potential customers. We consider control stick and instrument out of several items to determine which pay for the aircraft or not. We analyze types and features of the aircraft control stick and the instrument which are equipped in the same aircraft in order to figure out what is best needed through a market survey and a questionnaire survey.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.71-80
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• 2006

There are many display panels in the flight cockpit and pilots get various flight information from those displays. The ergonomic layout of the displays must be determined based upon frequency of use and sequence of use. This study investigated the visual search patterns of the six display groups(one head-up-display: HUD, two multi function displays: MFDs, one engine group: EG, one flight display group: FD and others) in a fighting aircraft. Four expert pilots conducted Imaginary flight in the physical mock-up and the eye movements were collected using eye tracking system. Data of dwell time, frequency of use, and eye movement path were collected. Pilots spent most of time on HUD(55.2%), and others (21.6%), FD(14.2%), right MFD(4.7%), EG(3.2%), and left MFD(1.1%) in descending order. Similarly HUD(42.8%) and others(30.0%) were the most frequently visited displays. These data can be used in the layout of cockpit displays and the determination of optimal visual search pattern.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1992.10a
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• pp.26-32
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• 1992

세계적으로 항공기 사고의 통계적 분석에 의하면 항공기 운용자의 인적과실(Human error)로 인한 항공기 사고가 약 70% 이상으로 보고되고 있다. 항공기 운용자의 인적과실에 기인한 요인들 중에서 운용자의 작업량, 작업공간, 작업환경, 인체크기, 인체 생리, 인간 심리 및 습관 등을 항공기 설계단계에서 고려하지 못한 요인이 대부분이다. 일반적으로 항공기 비행품질(Flying qualities)의 영향을 주는 설계분야는 크게 세가지로 항공기 형상(Configuration), 조종체계(Control system)및 조종실 배치(Cockpit layout)로 분류된다. 이들 세가지 설계분야 중에서 조종실의 운용자 인간공학적인 요구 사항을 고려하지 않으면 항공기 운용성 품질중에서 삼분의 일이 감소될 수 있다. 그리고 항공기 개발시에 전담하는 항공기 설계 분야별로 구분하고 그 전담설계 부서들과 인간공학적 조종실 설계 전담 부서가 항공기 비행 품질 및 운용자 인적과실(Human error)에 미치는 영향을 분석하고 인간공학의 중요성을 강조한다. 항공기를 개발할때에 개발자는 그 항공기를 운용하는 운용자의 인체, 생리, 심리, 습관 등을 고려 하여 항공기 조종실의 인간공학적 최적화 설계 및 배치 (Design and layout)를 개발초기단계부터 항공기를 설계할때에, 그 항공기의 조종실 품질은 조종사가 항공기 비행 임무를 수행할때에 항공기 비행을 위한 용이한 정보 인식(Sencing), 용이한 정보 결심(Deciding) 및 용이한 조종(Manipulating)의 특성을 조종사에게 제공할 때 항공기 비행 품질이 좋아질 것이다.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.15-26
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• 2002

The anthropometric characteristics of the intended user population are most important parameters in the equipment and workplace layout design, particularly in the airplane cockpit design. Because human body is composed of multi-dimensional body segments, single 'average' or 'extreme' manikin is not sufficient in computer-aided design(CAD) environments. To overcome this limitation, we constructed a manikin group representing Korean Male pilot population. First, we identified 16 anthropometric variables which are important parameters in the evaluation of reach, visibility, and clearance. And we found their correlations and conducted a factor analysis. Four common factors were extracted in the factor analysis. The first one was related with length dimensions, the second was with the arm reach, the third was with the sitting height, and the last was with breadth-depth dimensions. Finally, 17 manikins were constructed and presented in the CAD prototype.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.22 no.52
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• pp.33-41
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• 1999

More than 90 percent of traffic accidents were caused by human errors in driving situation. However, the ergonomic studies were not enough to prevent these human errors. Especially, drivers acquire more than 70 percent of information using the vision, and this shows the importance of consideration about the driver's visual cognition characteristics. Consequently, the driver's cognition time and the cognition accuracy were measured for the Instrument Panel(IP) of vehicle cockpit in this study. For the experiment, subjects were divided in two groups. The first group of subjects had their own vehicles and the driver license, and the second group of the subjects didn't have own vehicle but had the driver license. IP Images were used in the experiment and the each image was made by changing layout of objects within devices. The results showed that there were no differences for the cognition time and the accuracy between images within the group, and the results between the groups showed the same trend.

• Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.127-143
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• 1976

The purpose of this thesis is to study the optimal arrangement of aircraft instrument panels through the human factors approach. Human factors engineering is the process of effectively fitting the human component to the machine component in any man-machine system. The human factors. are especially important to an aircraft pilot who must constantly shift his attention between the instrument panel within the cockpit and the surrounding area of the aircraft. The preliminary part of this study is to find the general patterns of the Korean pilot's eye movements during their various flying maneuvers, and which instruments require the most attention while in flight. It is assumed that all pilots have a general pattern of eye movement when observing the aircraft instrument panel and that an optimum arrangement would be to minimize the eye travel distance between instruments. In this thesis the arrangements of instruments is taken to be the independent variable and the eye travel distance between instruments the dependent variable. la order to compile the information necessary for this study, sixty Korean Air Force pilots were interviewed and requested to complete information forms. These information forms listed various flying maneuvers and listed each instrument used on the instrument panel. The compilation of the information on these completed forms listed the instruments most frequently used by the pilots. The second part of this study was to determine the optimum instrument arrangement. It was necessary to study the various number of possible arrangements of instruments depending upon the number of instruments involved. Therefore, these instruments are grouped by two major functions, The flight instruments were subdivided into three groups, and the engineering instruments were subdivided into six groups. With this subdivision we arrive at the possible number of arrangements of 4,320. Through the simulation method, total eye travel distance for each of these 4,320 arrangements is calculated and the arrangement which appears to be of optimum distance between the most frequently used aircraft instruments is determined. The results of this study indicate that the optimum distance between instruments would be 33,028cm and that the corresponding distance of the instrument panel now being used is 34,288cm. Therefore, an increased efficiency of $3.8\%$ would be realized if the existing aircraft instrument panel were re-arranged according to layout proposed in this thesis.