Patent ID: 8337206

Claim:
A tool for assisting in design of an aircraft flight deck compatible with a night vision system, the tool comprising: a closed chamber configured to function as a dark room and including a mockup configured to reproduce an interior of a flight deck and configured to be representative of visual characteristics of the flight deck, the mockup configured to include equipment items that each produce an illumination and that are representative of the flight deck, and the mockup configured to reproduce a plurality of combinations of the illumination produced by the equipment items of the flight deck on command, the plurality of combinations of the illumination including a first combination having illumination of only one equipment item and a second combination having illumination of a subset of the equipment items, the first combination and the second combination being different, a light source configured to reproduce at least one level of darkness in the chamber, a measuring apparatus configured to measure, at a physical location in the mockup, at least one physical variable of each of the first combination and the second combination, the physical location corresponding to a location of the night vision system when mounted on a helmet of a pilot seated in the mockup, and a determining apparatus configured to determine whether each of the first combination and the second combination is compatible with the night vision system based on the measured at least one physical variable of each of the first combination and the second combination and based on reference data of the night vision system.