Elbit Systems reveals in Farnborough: a glass cockpit

Using an HD touch screen, aircraft and fighter helicopter pilots, as well as pilots in training and transport flights, will be able to control the aircraft by pressing the screen and in combination with Elbit's sophisticated helmet

Glass cockpit. Photo: Elbit Systems
Glass cockpit. Photo: Elbit Systems

During the airshow in Farnborough, which opened today (July 25-19), Elbit Systems unveils an innovative development: a glass cockpit. The unique cockpit, which will be used by airplane and fighter helicopter pilots, as well as pilots in training and transport flights, will allow the pilot to have convenient and efficient control over all the avionics applications of the pilot's vehicle through a central HD touch screen, in combination with the elite display system produced by Elbit Systems.

The modular system, which can be adapted to different air platforms, includes a particularly high-resolution display with touch technology, while fully connecting with advanced video and night vision applications. The modular ability to control the various aircraft systems will improve the performance of the pilots in the various missions (such as: attack, rescue, training and air assistance) and will also enable the saving of manpower.

The suite of integrated applications that contains the CockpitNG system produced by Elbit Systems presents the pilot with up-to-date information in real time, with full support of Windows-based applications and in combination with advanced systems, such as: a system for merging information received from the various sensors, a "smart" electronic flight bag (EFB) that provides the pilot with information about The essential systems of the aircraft, a three-dimensional map (3D) and video, as well as an aerial navigation system (highway-in-the-sky).

In addition, dedicated sub-systems for training flights are installed in the innovative cockpit from Elbit, which include virtual training capabilities with the full support of a virtual radar, LA systems and a targeting pod.

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  1. This is a wording or translation error. The reference is probably not to the operating system called windows but to windows in general, i.e. an operating system with a graphical user interface.

    I suspect that whoever drafted Elbit's press release does not know English and "computers" well enough and decided that the windows the engineers described should be translated literally.

  2. To 6.
    You probably mean NT4 which was stable.
    PRO versions are based on it.

  3. to 3. It depends on which version of Windows it is. Anyway, version
    4 for example (which was replaced by Windows 2000 and also
    which you probably didn't know), was a good and safe version
    for certain servers and jobs, because they were not "pasted"
    She has all the games and nonsense of 3.11 95, 98,
    XP, ME Vista, etc...

  4. DP, are you in the 10-17 age range, and comment in every talkback "in linux this wouldn't happen!"?
    Anyway, I guess there is no reason in the world for such a system to be connected to the network - so you have no real reason to worry :-)

  5. What WINDOWS??! what are they stupid??

    Hacking it is just nonsense…. UNIX based if anything.

    Lazy asses…

  6. Stop 0x000435e

    Your Aircraft has caused an unknown error to the operation system
    and needs to be ejected. no actions are required from you.

    system reboot in 60 sec.

    have a nice day, and hold on tight.

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