3D Animation of Recorded Flight Data

Three-dimensional animation technology has been used for many years for accident investigation purposes. With the advent of faster, lower cost personal computers this technology is now available to multiple individuals at airlines as a cost-effective enhancement for Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) and Flight Operational Quality Assurance (FOQA) programs. Aircraft animations with synchronized cockpit instrumentation are an effective means of presenting results, and drawing cause-effect relationships from recorded flight data. The animation of an event encompasses the aircraft’s flight profile, cockpit instrumentation, terrain and scenario data. With an increasing number of parameters being recorded on aircraft, a method of relaying the large amounts of available information in a meaningful manner is needed. 3D animations are one such method. Furthermore, 3D animation capabilities are now accessible to multiple end-users from their desktop PC.

• Record URL:
  http://www.iasa.com.au/folders/Publications/pdf_library/bolduc.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  National Transportation Safety Board

  490 L'Enfant Plaza, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20594

  International Transportation Safety Association

  Apeldoorn,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Bolduc, Carole
  • Jackson, Wayne
• Conference:
  • Transportation Recording: 2000 and Beyond. International Symposium on Transportation Recorders
  • Location: Arlington VA, United States
  • Date: 1999-5-3 to 1999-5-5
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 21-28
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Transportation Recorders. Transportation Recording: 2000 and Beyond, May 3-5, 1999, Arlington, Virginia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation crashes; Aircraft; Aircraft operations; Aviation safety; Cockpits; Computer animation; Crash investigation; Crash reconstruction; Flight paths; Flight recorders; Instrumentation; Terrain; Three dimensional displays
• Uncontrolled Terms: Flight data monitoring
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01088090
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 30 2008 12:31PM