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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 1 November 2010, is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It proposes a provisional cockpit design for craft driven by speculative breakthrough propulsion, such as control of gravity and inertia and faster-than-light travel. It draws mainly on the book Frontiers of Propulsion Science and on human-machine interface research.
UNCLASSIFIED/ /P9R: 9PPl!ltllt ~81!! 8HLV Copying the general organization of the other major panels, this tall and narrow enunciator is divided into three sections: • External Alarms (Upper Left): Alarm indicators corresponding to the most life- threatening conditions (limit of 4 to 10) that could occur external to the vehicle, such as impending collisions, hazardous radiation, or other critical situations. • Vehicle Alarms (Upper Right): Alarm indicators corresponding to the most life- threatening conditions (limit of 4 to 10) that could occur internally from the vehicle itself, such as catastrophic equipment malfunctions. • Cabin Alarms (Bottom): Alarm indicators corresponding to the most life- threatening conditions of the cabin's life support (limit of 4 to 10), such as loss of air pressure, excessive internal g's, temperature extremes, or pilot health conditions. Emergency Response Panel The narrow vertical panel between the center and right panel is the emergency response panel: a fixed series of buttons for preprogrammed emergency responses, including at least one variable button tied to the recommendations on the flight assist display. These are deliberately set into the tunnel vision field of view. Each of these responses is programmed to perform without needing additional inputs from the pilot. A provisional set of these preprogrammed emergency response buttons is as follows: • Evasive collision avoidance. • Escape to safe loiter position. • Get medical assistance. • Effect automated repair. • Return to base. • Flight-assist recommendation. One of the emergency response panel buttons is to select whatever response option is currently displayed on the assistant panel, while the other emergency response buttons are fixed functions. Flight-Mode Panel Because selecting any of these emergency responses will change the flight mode into "fully autonomous" mode, the flight-mode panel is between the emergency response panel and the survival enunciator. Because the flight mode is a critical piece of information, it is also located between the vector motion display and the vehicle status panel. In aircraft, the flight-mode controls are often on the glare shield, but in the breakthrough-era craft, there will not be a need for a glare shield. The light in the cabin is only from the display systems whose brightness can be set to prevent glare on the consoles. 37 UNCLASSIFIED//Flilll. lilFFUil,t.k l.lli&i lil'lk>/
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