Patent ID: 9505487
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: B64C,B64D,G02B

Claim Text:
1. An aircraft instrumentation system for a cockpit instrument panel of an aircraft that includes an ejection seat positioned within a cockpit of the aircraft, said system comprising: a first display operable to display at least one of flight mission data or aircraft systems monitoring data to a pilot; and a second display operable to control a plurality of display options of said first display, wherein said first display and said second display are positioned outside an ejection envelope for the ejection seat for the pilot, wherein said second display is within reach of the pilot of the aircraft locked in a torso harness of the ejection seat, and said first display is positioned forward of said second display such that said first display is outside the reach of the pilot locked in the torso harness when the pilot is shorter than a predetermined physical height, wherein both said first display and said second display are touch screen displays, wherein a pilot shorter than said predetermined physical height enters a first set of commands and a second set of commands on the touch screen of only the second display, wherein a pilot taller than said predetermined physical height has the option of entering both said first set of commands and said second set of commands only on the touch screen of the second display while locked in the torso harness, or of entering said first set of commands on the touch screen of said first display and said second set of commands on the touch screen of said second display while locked in the torso harness.