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Today's cockpit integrator, whether for state of the art military fast jet, or piston powered general
aviation, is striving to utilize all available panel space for AMLCD based displays to enhance
situational awareness and increase safety. The benefits of a glass cockpit have been well studied and
documented. The technology used to create these glass cockpits, however, is driven by commercial
AMLCD demand which far outstrips the combined worldwide avionics requirements. In order to
satisfy the wide variety of human factors and environmental requirements, large area displays have
been developed to maximize the usable display area while also providing necessary redundancy in case
of failure. The AMLCD has been optimized for extremely wide viewing angles driven by the flat
panel TV market. In some cockpit applications, wide viewing cones are desired. In bubble canopy
cockpits, however, narrow viewing cones are desired to reduce canopy reflections. American Panel
Corporation has developed AMLCD displays that maximize viewing area, provide redundancy, while
also providing a very narrow viewing cone even though commercial AMLCD technology is employed
suitable for high performance AMLCD Displays. This paper investigates both the large area display
architecture with several available options to solve redundancy as well as beam steering techniques to
also limit canopy reflections.
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