Aircraft Memory Unit Data Visualization Tool

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Group 4 Aircraft Memory Unit Data Visualization
Tool James Dennig Nick Clark David Korthuis
Mike Prince Hyun-Soo Kim
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Our Client Don Akers The Boeing Company
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The Aircraft
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Memory Unit Flight information is collected
during flight by the Memory Unit (MU)

• Air Speed
• Altitude
• AOA
• Pitch
• Roll
• Weapon Store
• Etc.

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What They Have An application that can display
raw MU data.
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What They Need An application that can visualize
the MU data.
Air Speed
734
Altitude
4,600
Pitch
12
Roll
23
Heading
SE
02-17-2001 134613 Warning Engine Failure
GH348T 02-17-2001 135144 Caution Failure To
Properly Use Turn Signal 02-17-2001 135258
Caution Turn Radius Exceeding Recommendation
Elapsed Time 01h 36m 42s
12x
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Must Do Graphically display the aircraft using
the following parameters

• Heading
• Pitch
• Roll

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Must Do Display, in real-time, (up to 5 of) the
following parameters

• Altitude
• AOA
• Heading
• Pitch Angle
• Pitch Rate

• Roll Angle
• Speed
• Time
• Yaw Rate

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Must Do Ability to change playback speed from 1x
to 25x Visual indication of cautions,
advisories and warnings Audible indication of
cautions, advisories and warnings
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Must Do Display weapon inventory Visual
indication of weapon release
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Additionally Must run on a modern version of
Windows Must retrieve MU data from a Microsoft
Access Database If time permits, we will explore
the option of creating a DLL or OCX file (to
embed in other applications).
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Wish List Seek (forward and backwards) through
the playback Multiple views of the real-time data
(the visualization of the plane)
Realism
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Reliability Display all appropriate MU data
accurately. Ensure that the graphical
representation of the aircraft correlates to the
actual movements of the aircraft.
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Development Programming Environment Visual C
.Net 3-D Visualization OpenGL Additional
Support Microsoft Access
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Spiral Model
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Versions
Version 1 Retrieves data from the
database Version 2 Displays some data in
real-time as selected from a pull-down
menu   Version 3 A very basic 3-D model is
displayed in real- time based on flight
data   Version 4 All user options are available
and 3-D Model is complete
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Data Input Microsoft Access Database provided by
our client.
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System Overview
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Questions