AVIATE GRACE

Integrated
Assessment Platform
Advanced Cockpit for Reduction
of Stress and Workload Technologies and Solutions
Application overview

Cockpit applications designed to reduce stress and workload during flight operations in a variety of flight
phases and demanding situations
Departure Assistant (UOM) Upset Detection and Recovery (TUBS&NLR)
Automated route planning around weather cells and Supporting guidance for manual upset recovery
terrain Automated recovery from upset situation
Time dependent weather cells avoidance Tunnel and director guidance symbology
Route update coordinated with ATC using datalink
HUD (DLR) NLR supporting technologies
Non-Transgression Zone visualization Multi Touch Screen based
Other traffic position and information
Runway edges and runway track alignment

Technology and Solution Specifications

Application Integration, HMI development and Supported by the Integrated Human Factors Team &
Part Task Evaluations on NLRs APERO Interaction Design Guidelines
Validation process within the Validation & Global
Final Crew Assessment using NLRs GRACE
Assessment framework

Research methods
Eye tracking
Data, voice and video logging
Electronic questionnaires
Multiple Crew Evaluations.
About 70 airline pilots participating in ACROSS
Operational Configurations 1 and 2
Technologies developed and assessed at TRL 5 APERO - NLRs fixed based Flight GRACE - Generic Research Aircraft
simulator Cockpit Environment

Enablers Outcomes

Data link communications (for now-casted Crew Support functions operationally and
TMA Weather, Notams, ATC, ADS-B, ..) successfully assessed by airline pilots
Geodetic databases Reduced Workload for some cockpit aspects
Multi Touch Screens Increased Situation Awareness
Back localizer Crew Acceptability & Usability & Comfort

This project has received funding from the European Unions Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant
agreement no ACP2-GA-2012-314501.
This document is the property of the ACROSS consortium and shall not be distributed or
reproduced without the formal approval of the ACROSS Steering Committee. Unrestricted
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Coordinator: THALES AVIONICS (FR)
Partners: AIRBUS (FR), AIRBUS GROUP Innovations (FR-DE), AIRBUS Operations (FR-UK-DE), BAE Systems (UK), BOEING (ES), CERTIFLYER (NL), CONTINENTAL (FR), DASSAULT
Aviation (FR), DEEP BLUE (IT), DLR (DE), GMVIS SKYSOFT (PT), GTD SISTEMAS DE INFORMACIN (ES), HELLENIC AEROSPACE INDUSTRY (GR), INGENIERA DE SISTEMAS PARA LA
DEFENSA DE ESPAA (ES), JEPPESEN (DE), NLR (NL), SELEX GALILEO (IT), STIRLING DYNAMICS (UK), TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DELFT (NL), TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITT
BRAUNSCHWEIG (DE), THALES NEDERLAND (NL), THALES TRAINING AND SIMULATION (FR), TONY HENLEY CONSULTING (UK), TRIAGNOSYS (DE), TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (IE),
TURKISH AEROSPACE INDUSTRY (TR), UNIVERSITY OF MALTA (MT), USE2ACES (NL), WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (PL), ZODIAC Aerospace (FR).