HUD - HEAD UP DISPLAY: THE TOOL THAT GETS YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE CLOUDS

Welcome to the Dreamliner™ aircraft. As adult pilots with thousands of hours flying experience in probably several aircraft, you will hopefully find the sophistication of this airplane to make your flying duties less onerous.

One sophistication of this airplane is the HUD – Head Up Display. A HUD is probably new to many of you transitioning from one manufacturer to this manufacturer or from one of this manufacturer’s other models to the Dreamliner™.

To assist you in easily assimilating this new knowledge of a HUD, I will ask you to participate. It’s more than you need or want to know, but as your “teacher” I ascribe to the Constructivist Learning Theory. This theory’s foundational principle is that learners like yourself learn best when they actively participate in constructing their own knowledge on a subject with some diminishing assistance from their teacher. In my opinion and those of others, “… it is in the act of our becoming a creator that our relationship with content changes, and we become more engaged and more capable at the same time” (Hargadon, 2008). The best way to truly ascertain whether you understand something is to teach it to someone else. 

To accomplish this lesson we will use some of my favorite Web tools: this blog, Google Docs, and email. My other favorite tools – pod casts and instructional videos – are not well-suited for this particular lesson.

In this lesson, I will assign some research for you to do. Then I want you to teach someone else, through a Word™ document or a Power Point ™presentation, about the symbology of the HUD. I don’t expect you to become an expert in presentation design! I am more interested in seeing your understanding of the material. Remember, your presentation will be posted on my blog for other students to view and learn from. If you decide to use Power Point™ for your instruction, you can keep it simple – no fancy animations or even slide designs. Through the embedded link to Google Docs here, I’ve included a sample of a Power Point ™ presentation which instructs on another subject. 

(If you have trouble with the link, copy and paste https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ObnIbR00KqY0tTd2tmVDJ1MFU/edit?usp=sharing into your browser).

Below is a description of the lesson.

HUD – HEAD UP DISPLAY: THE TOOL THAT GETS YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE CLOUDS
 
Instructor: Captain Ronald Allyn 

          

About the Instructor:

I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Science in 1971. Since then, I spent several months as a Certified Flight Instructor, 20 years in the U.S. Air Force both peace-time and war-time (most of it as an Instructor), and 26 years (concurrently with the USAF) as a pilot and Captain for United Airlines both domestically and internationally (much of that as an Instructor and FAA-designated Line Check Airman).

Since my early retirement from United in 2005, I have been working as a consulting Instructor Pilot for The Boeing Company. In that capacity I travel world-wide instructing crews on the technical systems and flying procedures in the Boeing 777 and 787.

I love what I do as an Instructor Pilot, and I am excited to be working with you! Let’s kick the tires and light the fires!

Instructor Contact Information:

Email: proipglobal@gmail.com
Phone: (+1) 707.322.1252

Course Description

Welcome to the sophistication “downgrade” of the Dreamliner™. Remember your early flying days when you flew the airplane by looking through the windscreen and used the earth’s horizon as your guide? When complex turbojet airplanes arrived on the aviation scene, their swept wing design required high airplane body angles and therefore a need to fly head down watching the instruments to control the flight.  The HUD will allow you to return to the “good old days” when you controlled the airplane by looking outside, but through the HUD. In that regard, it’s a “downgrade” if you will. With this device you can both look outside and use the control and performance instruments to control the airplane at the same time. This course will still require you to read the manual about the HUD. However, when you finish this lesson I believe you will understand the HUD’s symbology better and thereby be more comfortable with it as your new tool. Get ready to fling that silk scarf around your neck again!

Intended Learners

This course is intended for air crew who will be flying an aircraft using a Head Up Display. This course targets learners with prior turbojet experience in FAR Part 121 operations. The learners are adults, usually in their late 20s to early 30s or older.

Duration

This is a single lesson conducted while physically separated from the instructor (distance learning), in asynchronous time (no particular schedule but with due dates). 

Course Goals

This course teaches the symbology used within a HUD. At the end of this course, the learner will be well-prepared for their airline and regulator-specific additional training, either in a flight simulator or the airplane.

Learner Objectives

Upon completion of the HUD lesson, learners will be able to recognize the HUD’s symbology for:

·         A HUD-monitored takeoff.

·         A HUD-monitored low-visibility takeoff known as HUD Takeoff.

·         A HUD-monitored visual approach.

• A HUD monitored instrument approach.
• Unique symbols for unusual attitudes, wind shear, low speed situations, and ground deceleration.

Lesson Outline

	Objective	Assignment
Element 1	Learn the HUD symbology	Read Chapter 10, Section 12 of the Flight Crew Operations Manual (FCOM)
Element 2	Demonstrate understanding of the HUD symbology.	Teach the symbology to someone else through an instructor-like presentation. A Word™ document in Times Roman font, 12 pitch or a simple Power Point™ presentation will be used. The presentation should be mailed to the lesson instructor at proipglobal@gmail.com as an email attachment. If satisfactory it will be posted to this blog.

Assessment

TASK	EXPECTATIONS	BREAKDOWN
Element 1 completion	Complete required FCOM reading assignment.	50
Element 2 completion	Create a Word™ or Power Point™ presentation to teach the symbology to another pilot.	50
		100%

Grading

5 – EXCELLENT	Demonstrates mastery of all HUD symbology as demonstrated by a presentation that covers all 27 HUD symbols that may be seen throughout a flight. Presentation is unique, maintains attention, uses clear graphics, and is creative.
4 – STANDARD	Demonstrates a very good understanding of HUD symbols as demonstrated by a presentation that covers 18 to 26 HUD symbols that may be seen throughout a flight.
3 – SATISFACTORY	Demonstrates a satisfactory understanding of HUD symbols as demonstrated by a presentation that covers 9 to 17 HUD symbols that may be seen throughout a flight.
2 – BELOW STANDARD	Demonstrates a minimal understanding of HUD symbols as demonstrated by a presentation that covers less than 9 HUD symbols that may be seen throughout a flight.
1 – UNSATISFACTORY	Does not create an instructor-like presentation to teach the HUD symbols to another pilot.

Reference

Hargadon, S. (2008, March 04). Web 2.0 is the future of education. Retrieved from http://www.stevehargadon.com/2008/03/web-20-is-future-of-education.html