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Instrument Panel Design, Martin Bialy, Amber Carney, Michael Roche Jun 2012

Instrument Panel Design, Martin Bialy, Amber Carney, Michael Roche

Aerospace Engineering

This project focused on the design and implementation of an Electronic Flight Instrument System for a home built experimental aircraft known as a CH-701. Older aircraft use manual gauges and dials based on varying internal instruments such as gyro’s and the like but many of these traditional instruments to a singular GUI displaying multiple instruments data at one time. These devices are aimed at helping the pilot stay more alert and aware when flying between automatic warnings when in dangerous flying conditions / configurations as well as simplifying the instrument panel to only display what is absolutely necessary. These programs …