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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
Cool! I was an investigator (lab technician) at WPAFB Aeromed lab in a long term study on the minimum difference between the shapes of control knobs that allows a pilot to distinguish between one control and another. The most fascinating part of the study putting them in the centrifuge and correlating the loss of peripheral vision with the loss of tactile acuity.
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Cool right back at ya!
The best thing about the Comanche cockpit (dash) is that the designers really took onboard the tactile advantages of switchology, especially changing radio frequencies without looking down, the bane of most cockpits.
The challenge is that military pilot are supposed to wear Nomex gloves when they fly (I never did unless the CO, XO or an anal senior officer was with me), so shapes were very important.
I do genuinely love this stuff. In unmanned aviation systems, we are all moving to gaming based interfaces since they users have been accustomed to them for freakin' ever.