Improved Head-Up Display (IHUD)

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, ultimately contributing to operational success and to the survivability of aircrew and aircraft.  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 – the aircrew is free to concentrate on the situation outside the aircraft.

Fully Form, Fit, and Function Interchangeable with the current BAE Systems AN/AVS-7 NVG/HUD, the IHUD System is modularly adaptable to both 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 much higher system performance.

The Advanced Symbol Generator (ASG) 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, e.g. FLIR 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 (DU) to insert flight data into the optical channel: Legacy CRT, Flat Panel DU-Objective, Flat Panel DU-Eyepiece, DayHUD and Panoramic NVGs.  The DU is equipped with a quick disconnect connector, where appropriate, providing safe egress for aircrew members.  The direct drive all-digital flat panel displays feature a small diameter, flexible electrical cable, which enhances situational awareness, through much improved peripheral vision, and reduces the pilot distraction caused by the large diameter, stiff high-voltage cables needed by CRT displays.

The IHUD System control function can be either via the aircraft Avionics Management System or a 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.  Certain functions can also be remoted to the cyclic or collective grips.

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