The New Aviation Dashboard And Cockpit

Airplanes have long been plagued with a design defect: The dashboard is too big and too high. The height alone presents a danger in collision avoidance and piloting. I am six feet two inches tall and even I have to stretch a little to see over the dashboards of most private airplanes to see where I am going or to see anything in front of the aircraft.

In designing the Ikeler4000, one of the defects I wanted to remove was that of the big and hazardous dashboard. Thus, the glass cockpit you see in the photo. Here, many dials and instruments are converged onto one computer screen that allows tremendously efficient use of the dash. Gone are the multitude of dials and gauges that, although they have allowed us to impress our friends, at being able to pilot and control such a complicated machine, now offer efficient use and an easier one-glance look to get the aircraft information you need.

Time during flight needs to be spent scanning the sky for other traffic and looking at charts for ground references along the flight path. Now these new instruments can add to the safety and efficiency of flight, instead of detracting from it.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/